Checking if new player

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Okay in version 2.0 of SpongeAPI, there was a way to figure out if it’s the first time for a player to join the server through:

player.getJoinData().hasJoinedBefore();

The hasJoinedBefore() method was removed in 2.1 snapshot of SpongeAPI . Now, there are only two methods for JoinData class and they are getFirstPlayed() and getLastPlayed(). I think it’ll be too much of a hassle to figure out if a player has joined the server for the first time by figuring out the date in getFirstPlayed() method.

Any suggestions that I should do?

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Perhaps a sponge developer could provide insight to this?

I 2 am interested :smile:

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You could just check if their first join time was in the last two minutes.

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Like OP said, it would make more sense to have a method that determines this logic for you. Doing date and time math isn’t a fun thing to do (personally) and could be avoided entirely if there was a method provided by sponge.

Bukkit had this, why doesn’t sponge?

Any devs willing to speak on this design choice?

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I believe you just check for the presents/absents of JoinData

User user;
if (user.getData(JoinData.class).isPresent()) {
    // User has joined before
} else {
    // User never joined
}
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But wouldn’t that data be created before the plugin could check it?

Just a thought

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If a User has NEVER logged into the server before, there wouldn’t be a JoinData to be created. Only if you call getOrCreate(JoinData.class) would it be created always for any User or Player.

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I see @gabizou , I guess i was just curious as to how Sponge handled Player Data, this clarifies things. :smile:

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@gabizou so if I’m trying to detect if a player has ever been on the server before when they join, JoinData will always be present if they have joined before or do I have to use getOrCreate(JoinData.class) to create it?

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I think this is the best way to tell if it’s the first time for player to join the server by:

if(player.getJoinData().getLastPlayed() == null)

That’s the only way to tell if it’s new player on PlayerJoinEvent

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afaik null is returned nowhere from the API, so this will probably not work.

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Is there any solution to this?

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@Atomicbeast101

We are in the process of rolling out the second revision to the Data API. I’ll see that this gets resolved.

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As a temp solution, store new player uuid’s in a file for parsing later on. Just a thought.

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You can save player data in a file (config file for example) when connected and check in the file if this UUID is writed, if it is, the player isn’t a new player.

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Bump.

I’m actually looking for a solution to this too. What’s the new solution with the 3.1.0 API?

EDIT: a thread was opened before and problem was solved. In other news I’m going to practice my organizational skills.

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Looks like you’ve opened a new thread, just going to link it here