Legacy Format Support

Messages can be read from and formed into different formats.

MiniMessage (Default)

The default format using the Adventure MiniMessage.

a="<red>Hello world!</red>" # <-- because MiniMessage is default format this will be parsed as MiniMessage

// Whyever you would need it, its just deserializing and then serializing again
String miniMessage = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.MINI_MESSAGE);

NBT

The JSON like format that is being used by Minecraft internally

a="<nbt>{"text":"Hello world!","color":"red"}</nbt>"
a="<json>{"text":"Hello world!","color":"red"}</json>"
a="<gson>{"text":"Hello world!","color":"red"}</gson>"

String nbt = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.NBT);

Legacy (§)

The original ingame formatter to make colored values. Does not support hover texts or clickable texts. HexColors follow the pattern §x§r§r§g§g§b§b

a="<legacy:'§'>§cHello world!</legacy>"

String legacyParagraph = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.LEGACY_PARAGRAPH);

Legacy (&)

Similar to the § formatter, but with the ampersand symbol instead. HexColors follow the patterh &#rrggbb

a="<legacy:'&'>&cHello world!</legacy>"

String legacyAmpersand = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.LEGACY_AMPERSAND);

Plain Text

Simply turns everything into unformatted text.

# no reason, since MiniMessage would produce the same result.
a="<plain>Hello world!</plain>"
a="<pre>Hello world!</pre>"
# more likely example, where you don't want a tag to be parsed and display it as is:
a="<plain><msg:example></plain>"
# it will produce the string "<msg:example>" and not the resolved message with key 'example'.

String plain = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.PLAIN);