TextColor and TextStyle deserialization

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Is there currently a way to deserialize a TextColor or TextStyle from a String? I see no utility methods inside Texts, TextColors, nor in TextStyles. Is this in Sponge somewhere, and if not is it planned to be added?

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Probably not, but my solution is to convert tranditional &# to §# symbols to set the colors in the string in configuration file and convert the string to Text using Texts.of(...). I am not 100% sure if it’ll work or not. I have not tested it yet, but assumed it may.

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Ah well I know how to manually do it, was just hoping for a quicker integrated solution.

4

Take a look at the gameregistry’s getType method. This would look something like:

@Inject private Game game;

public Optional<TextColor> getColor(String name) {
    return game.getRegistry().getType(TextColor.class, name.toUpperCase());
}

to get a TextColor by name.

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5

Odd ? http://prntscr.com/7f7w1u

Thanks btw, I guess I’ll have to learn about catalogues in sponge!

6

Solution:

public Optional<TextColor> getColor(String name) {
    return Optional.of((TextColor) game.getRegistry().getType(TextColor.class, name.toUpperCase()));
}
7

Can you show an example of this in action? For example say you have the string ${RED}This is red text".

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That won’t work because you cannot cast an Optional to a TextColor
The following code works for me:

public Optional<TextColor> getColor(String name) {
    return game.getRegistry().getType(TextColor.class, name.toUpperCase());
}

If it doesn’t for you maybe you just need to clean and rebuild (sometimes that fixes weird things in eclipse).

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Woah yeah you’re totally right! Yeah I’ll try to clean the project- intellij though. Every IDE has their odd bugs.