Removing a players entire inventory?

Hi,


So what I want to do is save a player's entire inventory, delete everything from it, and then when the time is right, put everything back in their inventory. Also, I want to do this for multiple players so I'm using an ArrayList right now. The problem is I can't figure out a good way to do all of it. Thanks!

 

I'd suggest a HashMap<String, Inventory> that maps playernames to stored inventories.

 

techboy291
I'd use a hashmap to store the inventories:

Code:

HashMap<String, ItemStack[]> inventories = new HashMap<String, ItemStack[]>();

This would be the code to move an inventory to the hashmap:

Code:

inventories.put(player.getName(), player.getInventory().getContents());
player.getInventory().clear();

Then to replace their inventory:

Code:

player.getInventory().setContents(inventories.get(player.getName()));

 

Oh great, thanks.

Also, assuming the player had more than one item in their inventory, wouldn't you use PlayerInventory instead of ItemStack for the hashmap? Just wondering.

 

The code that kyle1320 posted actually refers to an array of ItemStacks, which is a simplified form of the contents of any given inventory. I'd use a PlayerInventory myself but his approach is equally valid.

 

Oh, I didn't see that that was an array.