Question AsyncChatEvent chat formatting

[themrsung]

Hi. I'm new to making plugins, and want to write some code that formats the chat message when typed. For example,

• Before: <abc> hello! &6this is gold text!
• After: [rank] abc: hello! this is gold text!

I have made an event handler for AsyncChatEvent, but I'm stuck here.

    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerChatEvent(AsyncChatEvent event) {
       event.message().replaceText(new TextReplacementConfig() {
           @Override
           public @NotNull Pattern matchPattern() {
               return null;
           }

           @Override
           public @NotNull Builder toBuilder() {
               return null;
           }
       })
    }

This is what IntelliJ autocomplete has got me. And honestly I have no idea where to even start.

How should I go about it?

 

[Notro]

Hey, if you are trying to color fix a message you could do:





Please note that I'm using a LegacyComponentSerializer, and not TextReplacementConfig, make sure to learn this.
Glad to help!

 

[Silal]

Hey, you can also do this:

@EventHandler public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e) { String message = e.getMessage().replace("&", "§"); e.setMessage(message); }

if its easyer.

 

[4drian3d]

Hey, you can also do this:

@EventHandler public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e) { String message = e.getMessage().replace("&", "§"); e.setMessage(message); }

if its easyer.

That event is deprecated and its use is not recommended, there is a possibility that in the future it will be removed.

 

[Silal]

That event is deprecated and its use is not recommended, there is a possibility that in the future it will be removed.

Yes, i know. But at the moment ist working.

 

[nathanfranke]

This works for legacy components

    @EventHandler
    public void onAsyncChat(AsyncChatEvent event) {
        if (event.getPlayer().hasPermission("chat_colors")) {
            String rawMessage = LegacyComponentSerializer.legacyAmpersand().serialize(event.message());
            event.message(LegacyComponentSerializer.legacyAmpersand().deserialize(rawMessage));
        }
    }