Getting a Player's Display Name

Plugins Plugin Development
1

I’m using Player.getDisplayNameData to get a player’s display name, but it tries to call get on an Absent if the player has no custom display name.

Yet this issue specifically states that the DisplayNameData is implemented.

2

Hmm, it should be implented, as shown here: https://github.com/SpongePowered/SpongeCommon/blob/master/src/main/java/org/spongepowered/common/data/manipulator/mutable/SpongeDisplayNameData.java

3

Have you tried using player.get(Keys.DISPLAY_NAME) if you’re just wanting to get the display name?

4

Your problem is that if the player does not have a custom display name, it returns absent. Players don’t have custom display names.

5

So should I instead use getOrCreate?

Edit: I fixed it, what I did was the following…

Optional<DisplayNameData> data;
if ((data = player.get(DisplayNameData.class)).isPresent())
    return data.get().displayName().get();
else
    return Texts.of(player.getName());