How to compare two Text object?

Plugins Plugin Development
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Text text=Text.of(“§5match”);

I set npc name on serverStart->entity.offer(Keys.DISPLAY_NAME, text);
and i save text variable reference in a field, then, I listen InteractEntityEvent to compare the text ref and the name of entity that be click.

targetEntity.getValue(Keys.DISPLAY_NAME).ifPresent(text_opt → {
LiteralText displayNameText = (LiteralText) text_opt.get();
if (text.equals(displayNameText){}

It’s weird, sometimes it’s equal, sometimes not.(maybe try restart server) WHY???(no error print)

2

I try Text#getConent(), one print “§5match”, another one print “match”.
try Text#toPlain(), same not equal.

3

Third try,

Text text=Text.of(“§5match”);
entity.offer(Keys.DISPLAY_NAME, text);
Text name=entity.getValue(Keys.DISPLAY_NAME);

text.toPlain() will equals name.getContent(),
This is only useful now, and I don’t know if it will fail at some point

4

Is it likely that the entity is getting unloaded and loaded again? Looking at the code, when an entity is loaded from NBT, it will call setCustomNameTag which is a legacy string. Sponge’s MixinEntity uses SpongeTexts.fromLegacy() which would result in a differently structured Text object. Using text.toPlain().equals(name.toPlain()) should work, unless you also need to compare formatting data.

5

In fact, I clean entity and add entity when server start everytime in order to prevent server crash cause entity can’t save normaly, Is this the wrong way？

6

If the entity could not be saved, that could be a bug. If you don’t know why it’s crashing maybe post the error log so we can investigate.

7

Sorry, it’s not sponge fault, it’s mine. Because i don’t want npc depend on the world(or map),I hate edit the lobby map, and i have a bad habit that is ctrl+c close server on linux.
Now, I use TextSerializers#LEGACY_FORMATTING_CODE and i think this problem is work out already.
Thanks for your answer!