Replace multiple strings in a Config String with multiple outcomes.

Hello, I am trying to make a CustomStaffChat plugin that allows staff to chat without players seeing it.

I am trying to make it so an admin could customize the way the staff chat works, but I have ran into an issue.
I want players to have a config like this:

Code:

message-format: "Prefix >> [PLAYERNAME]: {MESSAGE}"

I am not sure how to replace two things in a certain line of code. I have tried doing .replaceAll().replaceAll(), but I had no luck. How could I do this?

 

@gamerguy115 Please post your code so we can work from there.

 

Moved to Plugin Development

 

You've tried something like:

Code:

String formattedMessage = config.getString("message-format").replace("[PLAYERNAME]", player.getName()).replace("{MESSAGE}", message);

Anyway, just a speculation but I think it's because you're using replaceAll and not replace. replaceAll uses regex whereas replace doesn't (I think). "[PLAYERNAME]" seems like a regex thing as it is enclosed in "[]"'s so that may be why it doesn't work.

 

You use .replaceAll() for RegEx's.

@teej107

Code:

package me.CodeDotJar.CustomStaffChat;

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

public class main extends JavaPlugin implements Listener {
  
    public void onEnable() {
        getConfig().options().copyDefaults(true);
        saveConfig();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String label, String[] args) {
        if(cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("staffchat")) {
            if(sender instanceof Player) {
                Player p = (Player)sender;
                if(p.hasPermission("staffchat.chat")) {
                    if(args.length == 0) {
                        p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Usage: /staffchat <message>");                      
                    } if (args.length != 0) {
                        StringBuilder x = new StringBuilder();

                        for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++ ) {
                            x.append(args[i] + " ");
                        }
                        Bukkit.broadcastMessage(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', this.getConfig().getString("message-format").replaceAll("%player%", p.getName())));
                    }
                }
            } else {
                sender.sendMessage("You're not a player!");
            }
        }
      
        return false;
    }
  
}

EDIT: I was going to make a permission after the message in the Bukkit broadcast, just to let you know.

 

1. You forgot to return true after the last else statement in onCommand.
2. Again, use replace() and not replaceAll().
3. It would be:

Code:

this.getConfig().getString("message-format").replace("%player%", p.getName()).replace("%message%", x.toString().trim())

'aight thanks for clarifying. I said this in my post but I didn't know if I was fully correct.
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