What's the best way to code this?

[Kuzni]

Hello boys and girls,

I want to talk about efficiency/ease.

I understand that you're supposed to do arraylists with UUIDs to store players, you know, to prevent memory leaks and stuff. However is it necessary when coding an event plugin? If they log out, they're removed from the array, plus, they can't change their IGN mid game, so the only way they're stored as that player, is until the event is over or until they log out, is that an issue compared to storing with UUID?

 

[Kuzni]

I could barely understand what you were asking, but if you were asking if you should store a UUID over a Player the answer is UUID. If it's just a temporary game mode, just store the player's name instead. Once they are removed from the list or set you don't needd to worry.

Basically exactly what I was asking, thanks

 

[Kieraaaan]

Does it even make a difference (efficiency wise). Either way, I would just store UUIDs; all you do is change Player#getName() to Player#getUniqueId().

 

[Irantwomiles]

Also to add on what everyone is already saying, there is no need to store the whole Player object, because it contains a lot of things that you most likely wont need until a later time.

 

[Kuzni]

Thanks guys, closing the thread.