PaperMC/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 a903cc8e0fd6f44dc31b8b3998767d24a18f59b6..85cb12d2719ca42c04abcd63726059767bba6fe7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Bukkit.java
@@ -528,6 +528,20 @@ 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 d1554849a8a0e698d6106487fea44ad8e8b438da..d2fce537c80c73bd1711854fd4b86fb4730e6fe4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/Server.java
@@ -449,6 +449,18 @@ 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.
      *