Package net.dv8tion.jda.api.entities

Interface UserSnowflake

All Superinterfaces:

Formattable, IMentionable, ISnowflake

All Known Subinterfaces:

Member, SelfUser, User

public interface UserSnowflake
extends IMentionable

Represents an abstract user reference by only the user ID.

This is used for methods which only need a user ID to function, you cannot use this for getting names or similar. To get information about a user by their ID you can use JDA.retrieveUserById(long) or JDA.getUserById(long) instead.

Method Summary

Static Methods

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static UserSnowflake	fromId(long id)	Creates a User instance which only wraps an ID.
static UserSnowflake	fromId(String id)	Creates a User instance which only wraps an ID.

Methods inherited from interface net.dv8tion.jda.api.entities.IMentionable

formatTo, getAsMention

Methods inherited from interface net.dv8tion.jda.api.entities.ISnowflake

getId, getIdLong, getTimeCreated

Method Details

fromId

@Nonnull
static UserSnowflake fromId(long id)

Creates a User instance which only wraps an ID.

Parameters:

id - The user id

Returns:

A user snowflake instance

See Also:

• JDA.retrieveUserById(long)

fromId

@Nonnull
static UserSnowflake fromId(@Nonnull
 String id)

Creates a User instance which only wraps an ID.

Parameters:

id - The user id

Returns:

A user snowflake instance

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided ID is not a valid snowflake

See Also:

• JDA.retrieveUserById(String)