Have to set a killer.

Hello. I have a problem. I want to set killer of player/entity, but i don't know how.

Example:

Code:

   
@EventHandler
    public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event){
        event.setDamager(..) // or something like that.
    }

Any ideas ?

 

You can't set the killer (with just the Bukkit API), but what do you need to set it for? There are work arounds for nearly anything you can think of.

 

sajmonks It's certainly possible to do so(reflection sounds like the most versioning-proof way), but why would you need to?

 

How about using

Code:

 public void onDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event)
  {
    Player player = event.getEntity();
  
    if ((player.getKiller() instanceof Player)) {
      Player p = (Player)player;
      Player killer = p.getKiller();

Where Killer is the player who killed the player.

 

He's trying to change the killer, not get it...

 

player.damage(int damage, Entity damager);

 

sajmonks
You can change the message of the death.

 

You might be able to use reflection to edit the killer. Not really recommended, though.

 

Here's some old code of mine for just this

Code:

    private Object getHandle(Player player) {
        try {
            Method getHandle = this.getPlayerHandle==null?this.getPlayerHandle = player.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("getHandle", null):this.getPlayerHandle;
            // I think this is probably the simplest way to do this?
            return getHandle.invoke(player, getHandle);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }
    private void setKiller(Player player, Player killer) {
        try {
            Object playerHandle = getHandle(player);
            Object killerHandle = killer == null?null:getHandle(killer);
            Field nmsPlayer = this.getPlayerKiller==null?this.getPlayerKiller = playerHandle.getClass().getDeclaredField("killer"):this.getPlayerKiller;
            nmsPlayer.set(playerHandle, killerHandle);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

 

If you really wanted to, you could override the event and create a new event setting the killer with a new method.
http://wiki.bukkit.org/Event_API_Reference#Creating_Custom_Events
Thats how I would do it.