Get EntityPlayer on Server + Added NBT data persisting on Death

[WayofTime]

Hey, guys, it's me again!

 

The issue I am having this time is that I need an item to be able to store the player entity, and how I do that is by storing the name. That works well and everything, works perfectly while in SSP, but for some reason it does NOT work when I am testing this while on a server.

 

Below is the code that I use to get the EntityPlayer from the string.

EntityPlayer owner = MinecraftServer.getServer().getConfigurationManager().getPlayerForUsername(tag.getString("ownerName"));

 

(There is some null checking before and after this line)

 

From what I understand, seeing as when the client uses this on a server receives a NPE, the client is unable to get the server (or config manager, etc) from this line of code, and thus can not obtain the EntityPlayer from this. I either need a method that will return the EntityPlayer from a string representation, or be able to instead get the .dat file instead, since I am mainly interested in the stored data of the player's .dat file.

 

Second part, a separate matter, is that when the player dies any custom information that I add to the Entity data is erased. What I use is this:

NBTTagCompound playerTag = owner.getEntityData();
if(playerTag.getInteger("currentEssence")>=this.getEnergyUsed())
    	{
    		return true;
    	}

 

I suppose that when I save/access the information to/from the Entity, I am not saving it in an area that persists. I suppose the main issue with this is that I am not directly accessing the player's .dat file, and thus am not able to write persistent information.

 

I think that both of these issues relate to the need of directly getting the player's .dat information from a string, so if anyone has a method to do this for a server, that would be greatly appreciated!

[hydroflame]

use a class that extends IExtendedEntityProperties

[WayofTime]

use a class that extends IExtendedEntityProperties

 

I suppose that will work for the second issue, but it doesn't help with the first. Basically I'd need to get the NBTTagCompound (the one returned by .getEntityData()) by a different method.

[hydroflame]

well if the data is stored in the ItemStack extra nbt compound (idk what its exactly called) the server should automaticly sync itself to the client