Offline Player

maybe
hasPlayedBefore
from
https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/org/bukkit/OfflinePlayer.html
?

 

Use the method hasPlayedBefore() (boolean) in PlayerPreLoginEvent

 

Code (Text):

if (Bukkit.getPlayer(playerName) == null) {
   sender.sendMessage("Player does not exist!");
}

 

False. This only checks if the players is online. Not if the player exists on the server.

 

If so, what is the difference between Bukkit.getPlayerExact() and Bukkit.getPlayer()?

 

Straight from the docs:

getPlayer(String name)
Gets a player object by the given username.

getPlayer(UUID id)
Gets the player with the given UUID.

getPlayerExact(String name)
Gets the player with the exact given name, case insensitive.

 

Code (Text):

if (Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(playerName) == null) {
   sender.sendMessage("Player does not exist!");
}

 

*sigh*