Solved Essentials /Nick - Using my own ChatLayout

So I am using my own plugin to create a layout for chat, because I need to add information to the format that I cannot get from essentials. However I have no idea how Essentials stores and/or works out whether to use Nick/Name or how it does that.. Or how to get Essentials Nick to use in my plugin :S

How do I get a Nickname for a player, from Essentials, within my own plugin?

Hopefully this makes sense...

 

@ImaTimelord7 Just under curiosity, why do you want to use Essentials' nick names, and not your own?
Creating your own nickname system would be much much easier

 

If you are set on using the Essentials API to get the player nickname then all you need to do is
1) hook into essentials
2) get the essentials user

Code:

User user = ess.getUserMap().getUser(uuid);

3) get the display name

Code:

user.getBase().getDisplayName()

You might also just be able to use Bukkit's built in player.getDisplayName()