(SOLVED) [1.11.2] player.getHeldItem(hand) always returning Air

[saxon564]

I am updating my entities currently and am having problems in the processInteract method. When I interact with one of my entities with an item in my hand the getHeldItem method always returns minecraft.air but I am using it in the same way vanilla mobs use it.

 

The code I am using is right here:
https://github.com/saxon564/MoChickens/blob/master/src/main/java/com/saxon564/mochickens/entities/mobs/EntityMoChicken.java#L805

Edited October 13, 2017 by saxon564
Updated Title

[Draco18s]

itemstack != null

Items can't be null, use .isEmpty() instead.

[saxon564]

Ok. That fixes half the issue. But when I add .getItem() it is consistantly returns minecraft.air.

[aw_wolfe]

can you update the code and then highlight/comment which exact line is causing the problem...where you know it it returning minecraft.air?

[jeffryfisher]

5 hours ago, saxon564 said:

I am using it in the same way vanilla mobs use it.

Did you step through each in the debugger? Get in there and watch how the value gets assigned (or left with air as a default because it's not being assigned).

[saxon564]

3 hours ago, aw_wolfe said:

can you update the code and then highlight/comment which exact line is causing the problem...where you know it it returning minecraft.air?

 

1 hour ago, jeffryfisher said:

Did you step through each in the debugger? Get in there and watch how the value gets assigned (or left with air as a default because it's not being assigned).

Thanks for the input. I did have the code on my local computer which I did not have access to at the time but I just realized I was just being stupid and was using the wrong item. Though it seems it likes to use the item in the off hand if the item in the main hand does not match, which is very weird.