Solved Force Player to run a command

I need to force a Player to run a command even if the don't have permission.

Code:

player.setOp(true);
server.dispatchCommand(player, cmd);
player.setOp(false);

Is there a better way? I wasn't sure if that would spam the Player/console either.

 

Make the console run the command. Off the top if my head its something like:

Bukkit.getServer().getconsolesender(dispatchcommand(...))

I forget exactly. A quick google search will help you.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/make-console-send-a-command-as-a-player.120307/

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

the_merciless That sends the command from the console, not the Player. A lot of commands are ignored if they are not sent from the Player.

 

Codisimus

I don't know how to do it, but as a response to your idea...


Why would you make a player use a command they don't have permission for?

 

AFAIK commands aren't executed async, so nobody can run a comand while the other has not fininshed (the reason why you should not set the current execution asleep), thus there is no backdoor!

 

That's true. I guess it depends what command you want to execute. A lot of commands will allow you to specify a player too

 

Let's use my ButtonWarp plugin as an example. It allows you to assign specific commands to button. Suppose I wan't players to be able to use a certain command (for simplicity let's say '/spawn') but I don't want the player to be able to use it at any time. They should only be allowed to use it through pressing this button. I know that there is proly a console command that will send a player to spawn but there are certain commands that will not function as intended when sending them from the console. For example, If I want to run an informational command for the player (such as '/help'), running it from the console will send the response back to the console and not to the Player.

 

Codisimus

Oooh I understand. Why not temporarily override permissions without op?

 

If your using essentials you could always run a console command doing /sudo (player name) (command). Unless of course they dont have permission. In which case your original post (or temporarily setting permission) will be your best option.

 

I do not know the permissions that would have to be set bc this should work with any command.

Why would I depend on Essentials to do that? From my understanding it doesn't do anything different than dispatchCommand(player, cmd);

 

Even if you got the permission the command was using, there are a few plugins that don't specify the permission in plugin.yml and directly use sender.hasPermission() in the code.

So temp-op is the best way so far... however, just to be safe that nothing goes wrong, I suggest:

Code:

try
{
    player.setOp(true);
    server.dispatchCommand(player, cmd);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
    player.setOp(false);
}

And of course you should check if player is already OP before you execute that code.

 

Digi
Great idea, even though I doubt there are plugins out there that will cause exceptions when executing a command

I am gonna go ahead and mark this as solved. Thanks everyone for the help.