Solved Getting the extended Part of a Piston?

Hey Guys, currently I'm struggling with a Problem.
I'm trying to get the extended Part of a Piston (I already checked if it's powered), the once problem I have is, that I only have a Block-Objective of the Base-Piston. When I'ld search around the the piston for the extended Piston-Tile, I might get another extended Piston-Tile of another Piston.

I already tried to get the Direction of the Piston, but the gotten Direction via: "b.getLocation().getDirection()" is always the same, doesn't matter how I rotate the Piston. I also tried the b.getBlockFace(BlockObjective) method, but this also only returns the same :/

I have no more Ideas how I could solve this, I hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance, PreFiX / Dominik

 

You might want to cast the state of the block to Piston and see what methods there are to use?

Code:java

Piston piston = block.getState();

 

Where did you get the Piston-class from? I have Bukkit and CraftBukkit (booth 1.7.9) in my buildpath, but this won't show up.

 

Sorry, it was just a suggestion, I don't have access to either of the jars, as the repository server is down, and i figured since there is a Chest class, there would be a Piston class.

 

Haven't tested it but it should work. It returns null when the block you give the function isn't a piston and when the piston hasn't extended for some reason.

Code:java

private Block getExtension(Block piston) {
    if (piston.getType() == Material.PISTON_BASE || piston.getType() == Material.PISTON_STICKY_BASE) {
        switch(piston.getData()) {
        case 0:
            // Facing Down
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.DOWN).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.DOWN);
            }
            break;
        case 1:
            // Facing Up
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.UP).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.UP);
            }
            break;
        case 2:
            // Facing North
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.NORTH).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.NORTH);
            }
            break;
        case 3:
            // Facing South
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.SOUTH).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.SOUTH);
            }
            break;
        case 4:
            // Facing West
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.WEST).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.WEST);
            }
            break;
        case 5:
            // Facing East
            if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.EAST).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                return piston.getRelative(BlockFace.EAST);
            }
            break;
        }
        return null;
    }
}

 

Thanks man Didn't quiet work, but after some debugging I got the Solution:

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Code:java

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    private Block getExtension(Block piston) {
        if (piston.getType() == Material.PISTON_BASE || piston.getType() == Material.PISTON_STICKY_BASE) {
            Block extension = null;
            switch(piston.getData()) {
            case 8:
                // Facing Down
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.DOWN).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension = piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(0,-1,0));
                }
                break;
            case 9:
                // Facing Up
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.UP).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension =  piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(0,1,0));
                }
                break;
            case 10:
                // Facing North
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.NORTH).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension =  piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(0,0,-1));
                }
                break;
            case 11:
                // Facing South
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.SOUTH).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension =  piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(0,0,1));
                }
                break;
            case 12:
                // Facing West
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.WEST).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension =  piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(-1,0,0));
                }
                break;
            case 13:
                // Facing East
                if (piston.getRelative(BlockFace.EAST).getType() == Material.PISTON_EXTENSION) {
                    extension =  piston.getWorld().getBlockAt(piston.getLocation().add(1,0,0));
                }
                break;
            }
            return extension;
        }
        return null;
    }