Paper/patches/api/0091-getPlayerUniqueId-API.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aikar <aikar@aikar.co>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:39:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] getPlayerUniqueId API

Gets the unique ID of the player currently known as the specified player name
In Offline Mode, will return an Offline UUID

This is a more performant way to obtain a UUID for a name than loading an OfflinePlayer

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
index e5515d68b6d69816e29faf1c6d6babe94918b63b..7a5ed3f1ff00ac689f570cd8c02fbd6c7beb7f44 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
@@ -550,6 +550,20 @@ public final class Bukkit {
         return server.getPlayer(id);
     }
 
+    // Paper start
+    /**
+     * Gets the unique ID of the player currently known as the specified player name
+     * In Offline Mode, will return an Offline UUID
+     *
+     * @param playerName the player name to look up the unique ID for
+     * @return A UUID, or null if that player name is not registered with Minecraft and the server is in online mode
+     */
+    @Nullable
+    public static UUID getPlayerUniqueId(@NotNull String playerName) {
+        return server.getPlayerUniqueId(playerName);
+    }
+    // Paper end
+
     /**
      * Gets the plugin manager for interfacing with plugins.
      *
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
index d442ba16abfb096817a2be584a596bf6536b070e..87690bd58bdab40edcfddc40b26acc8e1f8cf8fc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
@@ -470,6 +470,18 @@ public interface Server extends PluginMessageRecipient, net.kyori.adventure.audi
     @Nullable
     public Player getPlayer(@NotNull UUID id);
 
+    // Paper start
+    /**
+     * Gets the unique ID of the player currently known as the specified player name
+     * In Offline Mode, will return an Offline UUID
+     *
+     * @param playerName the player name to look up the unique ID for
+     * @return A UUID, or null if that player name is not registered with Minecraft and the server is in online mode
+     */
+    @Nullable
+    public UUID getPlayerUniqueId(@NotNull String playerName);
+    // Paper end
+
     /**
      * Gets the plugin manager for interfacing with plugins.
      *