How to get player NBT?

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Hi,

I’m trying to get the player NBT in order to serialize it and store it into a database. I know that I should’nt be accessing NBT Data directly from the Sponge API but in this case that’s the only way I found to correctly syncronize player data with a database.

How should I do it ?

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NBT is not exposed in the API. Instead, you can get the DataContainer with player.getContainer(). It’s a tree structure similar to NBT.
Additionally, it can be exported to different formats, here are the built-in ones:
https://github.com/SpongePowered/SpongeAPI/blob/bleeding/src/main/java/org/spongepowered/api/data/persistence/DataFormats.java#L36-L40

3

Does the DataContainer contains all the data of the player ? Even modded data ?

4

Yes, the DataContainer contains all player data.

5

OK thank you ! And is there a way to deserialize the data from the DataContainer and apply it to the player ?

6

Look up how custom data works.

Keep in mind the recent annoucement gabizou mentioned if you are doing an API 6 plugin. Sorry I can’t help more. Going to sleep.