How do I get the message from a ClientChatReceivedEvent in the form of a TextComponentString such as

new TextComponentString(TextFormatting.AQUA + "I like trains.");

Everything I've tried so far just results in a very long String with data about the message as opposed to just the message itself.

Edited June 5, 20178 yr by Draconwolver

ClientChatReceivedEvent#getMessage returns the message as an ITextComponent. This could be an instance of any class that implements ITextComponent, e.g. TextComponentString or TextComponentTranslation.

 

What are you trying to achieve?

On 6/1/2017 at 2:39 AM, Choonster said:

ClientChatReceivedEvent#getMessage returns the message as an ITextComponent. This could be an instance of any class that implements ITextComponent, e.g. TextComponentString or TextComponentTranslation.

 

What are you trying to achieve?

Thank you, I figured it out with that information. I cast the ITextComponent to a TextComponentString and then compared TextComponentString::getFormattedText to my own String with some TextFormatting in it. I also noted that the placement of formatting must match exactly for the text to be considered equal.

Edited June 5, 20178 yr by Draconwolver

3 hours ago, Draconwolver said:

I cast the ITextComponent to a TextComponentString and then compared TextComponentString#getFormattedText to my own String with some TextFormatting in it.

 

This will fail if the ITextComponent isn't a TextComponentString. ITextComponent already provides the getFormattedText method, you shouldn't need to cast it.

 

3 hours ago, Draconwolver said:

I also noted that the placement of formatting must match exactly for the text to be considered equal.

 

You can use ITextComponent#getUnformattedComponentText to get the text without the formatting codes.

 

All vanilla ITextComponents also override Object#equals, so you can use this to compare the two messages.

On 6/2/2017 at 0:23 AM, Choonster said:

You can use ITextComponent#getUnformattedComponentText to get the text without the formatting codes.

For some reason ITextComponent's method didn't work for me, but TextComponentString's did as I expected. Perhaps it is because the message I am listening for contains

On 6/2/2017 at 4:16 AM, diesieben07 said:

formatting codes that are directly included in the text

 

 

On 6/2/2017 at 4:16 AM, diesieben07 said:

You should not concatenate formatting codes directly into the string like that, use the Style object that can be accessed with ITextComponent::getStyle to set the style of the text.

What if the text contains multiple styles that may or may not be complexly strung together? E.g.

String text = TextFormatting.RED + "My favorite color is " + TextFormatting.BOLD + TextFormatting.ITALIC + "red" + TextFormatting.RED + ". " + TextFormatting.YELLOW + "Can you read " + TextFormatting.OBFUSCATED + "this" + TextFormatting.GOLD + "?";