Get UUID without freezing main thread?

How to get an UUID without freezing the main Bukkit thread?

 

Jhtzb If you're "feezing the main Bukkit thread" then you're not just getting a UUID, you're doing something else as well because you can get the UUID of an online player really easily. Either way, run it on another thread? What is it exactly that you're trying to do?

 

AdamQpzm Sorry Im not explaining it right. I am getting the UUID of an offline player using an API (Connecting to the Mojang servers), but it takes some seconds to connect.

 

Jhtzb
Then use a separate thread.

 

SuperOmegaCow How to do that?

 

google + java + separate thread

 

Bukkit has a scheduler which allows for threading. Call an asynchronous task.

 

Jhtzb
just do something along the lines of:

Code:

public class MojangLookup implements Callable<String> {
 private String name;
 private String uuid;
 
 public MojangLookup(String name) {
  this.name = name;
  try {
   this.uuid = call();
  } catch (Exception e) {
   System.out.print("no connection with mojang site");
  } 
 }
 
 public String getUniqueId() {
  return uuid;
 }
 
 public String getName() {
  return name;
 }
 
 @Override
 public String call() throws Exception {
  //do your parse things from the authclient
  String exampleUUID = "blah";
  return exampleUUID;
 }
}

I never heard about Callable but this thing actually rocks, a runnable is not good at all because you can't depend on slow IOExceptions so you actually want something smilliar as Runnable but which returns the String instead of a void and else throw faster a exception an Callable can do this while a Runnable cannot unless the thread is frozen to long.

note ive wrote this code myself but about the Callable ive found here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/player-name-uuid-fetcher.250926/ most of this I got from here since I runned myself into multiple issues using a Runnable so credits to evilmidget38 i've learned something new