Paper/patches/api/0092-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 39f97dac6af70b45101a7de776009c4fa3874868..098a09baa481f76e63991268d3dfabc413626fcf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
@@ -656,6 +656,20 @@ 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 4597c9b2e4691495b54333711141b83926af193d..2042f4963c53d5a903f0de1fec6a9af3a7b2bba4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
@@ -558,6 +558,18 @@ 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.
      *