How to equal players name in if?

I have been trying to make a specific command do different things depends on whos asking. but i cant get it accept any name.s

my if looks like this:

Player player = (Player) sender;
if (player.GetDisplayName() == "myname"){
player.sendMessage("You are so cool")
}

whats wrong, why do it not show the text when myname call the command?

Hope someone can help me

 

always use string.equals(anotherstring) for Strings (actually objects in general):
if (player.GetDisplayName().equals("myname")){

btw: you might want to use getName() instead of the display name, since the display name might contain colours and prefixes depending on the plugins on the server.

 

There is also : .equalsIgnoreCase("") , this will ignore the case of the string also.

Another suggestion for your code would be a "instanceof" check to make sure that the commandsender is infact a player other you will get ClassCastExceptions throwing up and anger customers

 

Usually in Java, methods do not start with a capital. Would

Code:

if (player.getDisplayName() == "myname"){

Fix the issue? But regardless, the other advice is sound.

 

Thanks for the help, it works perfectly