Making player.setDisplayName(); compatible with Essentials

I am making a small plugin that places players onto two teams. I used player.setDisplayName(team_prefix + player.getDisplayName()) to add a prefix to the player's name in chat. However, when I use it with essentials, it doesn't display nicknames or groupmanager prefixes. is there a better way to add team based prefixes and still keep nicknames and groupmanager prefixes?

 

Try the Essentials API.

 

Turn off essentials chat in the config.

 

@Ozcr, can you show me some resources that would help with using essentials API? So far I have found nothing about how to do what I am trying to do.

 

https://github.com/essentials/Essentials/tree/master/Essentials/src/net/ess3/api
You can add essentials as a referenced jar in your Java project then add it as a plugin dependency in your plugin.yml. Then check if essentials is enabled by doing this in your onEnable:

Code:

if (getServer().getPluginManager().isPluginEnabled("Essentials") {
// Register your commands and events here.
} else {
getLogger().info("Essentials is disabled or not in you plugins folder, disabling plugin.");
// Disable plugin here.
}

I haven't used Essentials API before, so I'm not sure exactly how it works, good luck though.

 

@Nukreeper64

You can disable the nick names in Essentials. It is one of the first config questions

 

@CodePlaysMinecraft, so I figured out a workaround, sort of, I am going to use scoreboard teams because essentials chat can have prefixes for those. However, I ran into a problem. How am I supposed to do:

Code:

ScoreboardManager manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
        Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();
        Team england = board.registerNewTeam("england");
        Team france = board.registerNewTeam("france");

within the onEnable method and then later call england.addPlayer(); in my oncommand method when apparently the type "Team" can not be public?

@SuchSwegMuchWow, as I said in my original post, I want to have both prefixes from my plugin and essentials prefixes.

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

 

@Nukreeper64 Make the teams a static variable:

Code:

// Setting the scoreboard and teams.
Scoreboard sBoard = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager().getNewScoreboard();
public static Team england = sBoard.registerNewTeam("England");
public static Team france = sBoard.registerNewTeam("France");

//Make sure that the variables are OUTSIDE of any methods.
public void Scoreboard() {
// Your scoreboard stuff here.
}

 

@CodePlaysMinecraft Yess!! Let's go against Object Oriented Programming! Do you know what encapsulation is?

 

@Konato_K Nope. How is the Team being a static variable bad exactly? There aren't any errors that show up, so I'm sure it's fine.