Solved Muting.

Alright so understand the use of Hashmaps to add a player to a mute which i have done and implemented, however i do not understand how one would add hours, minutes, seconds to the mute if someone could give me a quick crash course that would be awesome atm the i just have the feature that permanantly adds the player to the hashmap, mutes them and then typing the command again unmuted them and removes them from the hashmap.

 

@x_Jake_s It depends on how you manage your map, but I would suggest using

Code:

Map<UUID, Date> mutedPlayers

So you can have the date of when their mute expires, and if they are not in the map then they are not muted.

 

@x_Jake_s
Hashmap:
generally, map implementations like hashmaps, weakhashmaps ect, have different properties. The most common in bukkit plugin dev, is hashmap. So a map is like a table that stores a key and a value. to get the value you input the key and it returns the value.
So lets say i have map:

HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("Hi","Hello");
map.put("Bye","cya");
map.put(""," to you!");
So the map will be like:

So if i do:
Bukkit.broadcastMessage(map.get("Hi")); it will broadcast "Hello" since thats the assigned value.

In your case:
Take a map <UUID,Long>
in uuid purt player's uuid and in Long put system.curentTimeMils()+(timeinseconds/1000);
when thwy try to chat check if they are in the map (map.containsKey(playersuuid)) and if they are cancel the event!
Otherwise, let them chat.
Careful!: when they chat, first check if they belong in the map, and once they do, check if the long assigned to them is <= to system.curenttimemills(); if it is, remove them from the map, it means their time is over
Phew, hope that helps!

 

Okay i loved the picture btw but heres what i have coded and im not sure how to implement the timing in it :
(im only including the actual code for the single command to protect my plugin rights)

Code:

 public ArrayList<String> mute = new ArrayList<String>();

    if (command.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("mute")) {
       if (args.length < 1) {
         sender.sendMessage(prafix + ChatColor.WHITE
             + "Usage: /mute <player> [time]");
         return false;
     
       } else {
        String message = "";
        if (args.length > 1) {
        for (int i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
        message = message + args[i] + " ";
        }
        }
         Player p = Bukkit.getPlayer(args[0]);
         if ((p == null) || p.hasPermission("chatadmin.mute.bypass")) {
           sender.sendMessage(prafix
               + ChatColor.GREEN
               + p.getName()
               + ChatColor.RED
               + " is not online or you cannot mute that player.");
         } else {
           if (mute.contains(p.getName())) {
             mute.remove(p.getName());
             p.sendMessage(prafix + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + "You have been unmuted!");
             Bukkit.broadcastMessage(ChatColor.AQUA
                 + sender.getName() + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + " has Unmuted " + ChatColor.AQUA + p.getName() + ".");
           } else {
             mute.add(p.getName());
             p.sendMessage(prafix + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + "You have been Muted by " + sender.getName());
             Bukkit.broadcastMessage(prafix + ChatColor.AQUA
                 + sender.getName() + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + " has muted " + ChatColor.AQUA + p.getName() + ChatColor.GREEN + " for " + ChatColor.RED + message);
           }
       
         }
     
       }
     }

now after reading what you have put i kind of understand a little bit more but im still not there at where to insert the items im guessing its the basic :

public HashMap<UUID, Long) mute = new HashMap<UUID, Long>();

and then to add the player to it:

muted.put(p.getName() + System.curentTimeMils()+(interval/1000);

but it doenst work?



** and yes the command i showed doesnt have a permission link but i add that in usually when i finish the command.

 

Hint: You're storing a string in a HashMap that doesn't contain a String key.

 

so would i add a third variable to the hashmap? like UUID, String, Long? im still doing trial and error in my plugin so i might figure it out eventually but i do need help when i cant get it.

Edit #1:
okay so i think i finally got the code to be happy with:

Code:

             public HashMap<String, Long> mute1 = new HashMap<String, Long>();        

         if (mute1.containsKey(p.getName())) {
             mute1.put(p.getName(), System.currentTimeMillis()+(interval/1000));

is this right?

Edit #2:
i think i finally got it to work:

Code:

          if (mute1.containsKey(p.getName())) {
             mute1.remove(p.getName());
             p.sendMessage(prafix + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + "You have been unmuted!");

             Bukkit.broadcastMessage(prafix + ChatColor.AQUA
                 + sender.getName() + ChatColor.GREEN
                 + " has Unmuted " + ChatColor.AQUA + p.getName() + ".");
           } else {
             if (mute1.containsKey(p.getName())) {
               mute1.remove(p.getName());
               
               p.sendMessage(prafix + ChatColor.GREEN
                   + "You have been Muted!");

               Bukkit.broadcastMessage(prafix + ChatColor.AQUA
                   + sender.getName() + ChatColor.GREEN
                   + " has Muted " + ChatColor.AQUA + p.getName() + ".");
             }
           }
         }
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You were declaring a hashmap with a UUID, then you were assigning values with the player's name, which is a string, not a UUID.

 

Alright i got it now i finally got it to work thanks for all of your help guys!