Component#replaceText() does not match across component boundaries

[kangarko]

Code:

// MiniMessage NOT required to reproduce but used for readability
final Component component = MiniMessage.miniMessage().deserialize("<gradient:red:blue>This is a test, {player}").replaceText(b -> b.matchLiteral("{player}").replacement("Demo"));

System.out.println("Demo: " + PlainTextComponentSerializer.plainText().serialize(component));

The way this is implemented (by the way, MiniMessage is NOT required to reproduce, simply chain letters with different colors to do so) the Component turns into {"extra":[{"color":"red","text":"T"},{"color":"#F8555C","text":"h"},{"color":"#F05564","text":"i"},{"color":"#E9556B","text":"s"},{"color":"#E15573","text":" "},{"color":"#DA557A","text":"i"},{"color":"#D35581","text":"s"},{"color":"#CB5589","text":" "},{"color":"#C45590","text":"a"},{"color":"#BC5598","text":" "},{"color":"#B5559F","text":"t"},{"color":"#AE55A6","text":"e"},{"color":"#A655AE","text":"s"},{"color":"#9F55B5","text":"t"},{"color":"#9855BC","text":","},{"color":"#9055C4","text":" "},{"color":"#8955CB","text":"{"},{"color":"#8155D3","text":"p"},{"color":"#7A55DA","text":"l"},{"color":"#7355E1","text":"a"},{"color":"#6B55E9","text":"y"},{"color":"#6455F0","text":"e"},{"color":"#5C55F8","text":"r"},{"color":"blue","text":"}"}],"text":""} and the replaceText() method is unable to find the letters.

The only way we "fixed" it so far is to replace variables on the raw message before parsing it.

Thanks
Matej

[zml2008]

Unfortunately this is a limitation of replaceText, it doesn't look for matches across component boundaries. It's possible to redesign the replacement logic to not have this limitation, but we haven't figured out a way to do it without significantly increasing the complexity of the API.