[SPIGOT-148] Signs Are Derped up! From 1.7.10 to 1.8 update Created: 07/Dec/14  Updated: 11/Dec/17  Resolved: 07/Dec/14

Status: Closed
Project: Spigot
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug Priority: Minor
Reporter: HaxtorMoogle Assignee: Thinkofname
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: 1.8, Essentials, Signs, bug, spigot, world
Environment:

Spigot 1.7.10 to 1.8 on Linux running on a bungee hub system



 Description   

Signs that were placed prior to 1.8 have all been messed up in some form or another.

The random code for a ' in he sign text...
http://i.gyazo.com/706bbbe1086000c3c207271c42b9c5ab.png
http://i.gyazo.com/3782e2560638a0c540a0371c95924d7a.png

Lets add " to as much as we can
http://i.gyazo.com/d4d11f6b5f85e1a14c238f0617ea8d86.png
http://i.gyazo.com/4916f512d22fddf444ecce7710955f0c.png
http://i.gyazo.com/56056cbd0030b6e7de0ddd324dca387d.png

This is quite funny yet painful at my spawn as there would be more then 100 signs to rewrite



 Comments   
Comment by Absentee23 [ 07/Dec/14 ]

Yup...

"This is vanilla's handling it, instead of converting it just always tries treating it as the new format and if that fails uses the old system, `[private]` is valid json so it passes the first one. As you can see they don't actually convert signs the just treat them all as the new system and since they are put back into the old place in the new format you can't tell if the string in the "Text*" field is an old 1.7.10 sign that happens to pass as json or an 1.8 sign that was created later."

from https://hub.spigotmc.org/jira/browse/SPIGOT-60?focusedCommentId=10256&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-10256

Comment by HaxtorMoogle [ 07/Dec/14 ]

http://i.gyazo.com/8712fab20d2b8e9704d8448ab8db7ddc.png lmao

Comment by Absentee23 [ 07/Dec/14 ]

You can ONLY use it on a 1.7 world being updated to 1.8. NOT on a world that has ALREADY been updated to 1.8.

This is why you take backups and test updates before pushing them live.

Comment by HaxtorMoogle [ 07/Dec/14 ]

-DconvertLegacySigns=true Completely derped out my signs now ... omg

Comment by BillyGalbreath [ 07/Dec/14 ]

Duplicate of Spigot-60

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