Get a player's uuid by his name

Hi ! I want to make to VIP plugin (gives vip by command) compatible with UUID but I ran into an issue :

What my plugin do is giving a vip account to Player123 when I use the command /vip Player123.

The .getPlayer("Player123") as been deprecated but I don't know how to get Player123's UUID in order to use the non deprecated .getPlayer(uuid) method.

Any help is welcome,
Xibalba.

PS : I do not store anything (uuids or playernames)

 

Xibalba7 Even though it's been deprecated, in cases like these it's fine to use .getPlayer(String) to get a player from their string name.

 

Xibalba7
You could just loop through all of the online players until you find an online player name with the same name as the one in your command argument. This is basically the same as calling the deprecated method though (getPlayerExact()).
Example:

Code:java

 String targetName = "MCForger";
Player player = null;
for (Player online : Bukkit.getServer().getOnlinePlayers())
{
if (online.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(targetName))
{
player = online;
}
}
 
if (player == null)
{
// Player is not currently online.
return;
}

 

There's no point in trying to bypass deprecation when it's with code like this.

The deprecation was placed to draw attention to the fact that Bukkit#getPlayer() is no longer safe when it comes to file storage, and players should be stored by UUID instead.

MCForger all you do is do getPlayerExact in a different way. This is completely pointless and shows you have understood nothing about the deprecation.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Ok thanks, I won't change anything then.

I thought I had read something like "deprecated methods will be removed" but in fact it says "UUID awareness deprecations will be removed"

 

MCForger
Well, same thing. getPlayer does some vague guessing

Player found = null;
String lowerName = name.toLowerCase();
int delta = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
for (Player player : getOnlinePlayers()) {
if (player.getName().toLowerCase().startsWith(lowerName)) {
int curDelta = player.getName().length() - lowerName.length();
if (curDelta < delta) {
found = player;
delta = curDelta;
}
if (curDelta == 0) break;
}
}
return found;
While getPlayerExact loops through the players. There's no point in re-inventing the wheel here.