New way of getting material by id/name?

Material.getMaterial is deprecated, and I read it's because Minecraft is switching from IDs to modname:item (like WOOL:5).
So how do I do this?

 

Depends what you're using it for, you can use Block#getType() which returns a Material, which can then be compared to other Material enums, or you can use Material.WOOL as an argument for an ItemStack constructor, to create an item stack of it.

 

Want the Id? then still use Material.getTypeId();

 

neither of you have any idea what im saying do you

 

boynedmaster Deprecated isn't the same as doesn't work. So you can still get it by the id, but you're better off by using the name. Relevant methods can be found in the JavaDocs.

 

boynedmaster

Don't get all huffy, we're just trying to help. Do you want to know how to get a colored wool (a wool w/ metadata) in an ItemStack?

 

whats the method to get item by the name??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

Considering how little you said, and how poorly you explained it, no.

Maybe if you explained what you're trying to do, we could help.

Perhaps the Material.getMaterial(String) method is what you're looking for?

 

ok
lets say i wanted to get the wool by its name WOOL:5
what would i do to get that

 

You could try:

Code:java

String mat = "WOOL:5";
String[] data = mat.split(":");
 
Material material = Material.getMaterial(data[0]);
try{
  Byte dataValue = Byte.parseByte(data[1]);
} catch (Exception e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}
 
ItemStack is = new ItemStack(material, <amount>, 0,dataValue);
 

Make sense?

 

eh
i guess