Question Replacement for ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes

[ikonodim]

I'm looking for a suitable replacement for this snippet of my code as it is deprecated:

private String translateColorCodes(String text) {
    return ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', text);
}

I am using 1.20.6

 

[mbaxter]

It's 2024, so you should be using components instead of the legacy color code stuff (which Mojang replaced for chat in 2013).

If this is based on configuration, migrate to use MiniMessage, which allows proper component creation (including all the fun stuff like fonts, translation, clickable, hoverable. If this is in-plugin stuff, either use MiniMessage still or just build Components properly.