Solved /<command> playername | How?

Hey guys I have coded a economy plugin for my network and I want to make it so I can give coins to people with their usernames like : /givecoins playername | But I don't know how to do that, what I know is /givecoins and it executes only for the player, please tell how to do it! Thanks...!!

 

@AdityaTD
Bukkit#getPlayer(UUID uuid); OR Bukkit#getPlayer(String name);

 

Your answer is described briefly by @CraftCreeper6
But you can find it analytically here: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Plugin_Tutorial
Pay some effort reading this tutorial, it is the basic-basic requirement for bukkit coding.

 

@mine-care and @CraftCreeper6 will this work!?

Code:

Player target = (Bukkit.getServer().getPlayer(args[0]));
        if (target == null) {
           sender.sendMessage(args[0] + " is not online!");
}else{
//coins code!

 

@AdityaTD
If args[0] isn't null, then yes.

 

@CraftCreeper6 I ink you mean 'if args[0] exists...' Not null =]

 

I think you mean if the getServer().getOnlinePlayers().contains(args[0])

 

Nop that won't work.

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I think

 

@MajorSkillage as @MaTaMoR_ said, it wont work. what i am proposing is that craftcreper said "...not null..." and i corrected in the sence that it wont be null but it will throw a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if args[0] does not exist. And to retrieve a player object of of a string you need to Bukkit.getPlayer(String name); that will become null if the player is not online at the moment.

 

@CraftCreeper6 @mine-care @MajorSkillage I get this on this code below: http://prntscr.com/6cpjra

Code:

        if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("givecoins")) {
            if (sender.hasPermission("coin.give")){
                Player target = (Bukkit.getServer().getPlayer(args[0]));
                if (target == null) {
                   sender.sendMessage(args[0] + " is not online!");
        }else{
        getServer().dispatchCommand(getServer().getConsoleSender() , "eco give " + target + " 100");
        player.sendMessage(ChatColor.BLUE + "Coins> " + ChatColor.WHITE + "Gave " + ChatColor.YELLOW + target + ChatColor.WHITE + " 100 Coins!");
                return true;
            }
        }
        }

 

@AdityaTD
target#getName();

 

@AdityaTD
Please pay some effort reading the basic bukkit plugin tutorial. It will solve all your questions link is provided above ^

 

Following up one what @mine-care said, if you don't know already, you need to at least know that basics of Java to understand what you're doing when you code, especially for an API that is written in it. It's going to be very difficult trying to understand, for example, what an ArrayList does without the basic knowledge of Java.

 

Use Vault's API.

 

Alright thanks guys I guess it's fixed now!

 

@AdityaTD Since the the thread is solved (for now), please set this thread to Solved by going to Thread Tools > Edit Title > Prefix > Solved.

 

@CodePlaysMinecraft Thanks, I never knew how because this is first time my prob got solved!