From ea0f91136e704b314b7263bfe61cbd214b13706e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KennyTV <kennytv@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 10:15:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Accept plain strings for components Addresses #1968

---
 .../myles/ViaVersion/api/rewriters/ComponentRewriter.java | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/src/main/java/us/myles/ViaVersion/api/rewriters/ComponentRewriter.java b/common/src/main/java/us/myles/ViaVersion/api/rewriters/ComponentRewriter.java
index 3a8df2a5a..38b10c76e 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/us/myles/ViaVersion/api/rewriters/ComponentRewriter.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/us/myles/ViaVersion/api/rewriters/ComponentRewriter.java
@@ -106,8 +106,12 @@ public class ComponentRewriter {
             processText(root);
             return root;
         } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {
-            Via.getPlatform().getLogger().severe("Error when trying to parse json: " + value);
-            throw e;
+            if (Via.getManager().isDebug()) {
+                Via.getPlatform().getLogger().severe("Error when trying to parse json: " + value);
+                throw e;
+            }
+            // Yay to malformed json being accepted
+            return new JsonPrimitive(value);
         }
     }