From e1d2e8f216b7fda9a9c87aa3540e2b73307a19d7 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 02e7d118..233a7154 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
@@ -431,6 +431,20 @@ 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(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 9e7bc162..b8076fc3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
@@ -361,6 +361,18 @@ public interface Server extends PluginMessageRecipient {
      */
     public Player getPlayer(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(String playerName);
+    // Paper end
+
     /**
      * Gets the plugin manager for interfacing with plugins.
      *
-- 
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