Selector and score text components don't work on hoverEvents

Confirmed for 1.8.2-pre1

Did you try 'minecraftjson.com' as a tellraw generator by Ezekielelin?

i use a lot the Ezekielelin generator, but it don't use all the features of tellraw yet, like scoreboards and selectors on hover event.
json is very complex and have a lot of features, Ezekielelin don't use all of them

Confirmed up to 1.8.2 pre-6.

Confirmed for

• 1.8.8 The behaviour is pretty interesting, it is the same like for resolved books with a selector tag in the pages tag.

selector: Not working

/tellraw @p {"text":"Hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","value":{"selector":"@p"}}}

translate: Working

/tellraw @p {"text":"Hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","value":{"translate":"Number: %s","with":[1]}}}

score: Working for explicit player names

/tellraw @p {"text":"Hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","value":{"score":{"name":"Notch","objective":"test"}}}}

Confirmed for 16w06a, though it seems that explicit player names for scores do not work anymore.

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The following is based on decompiled version of Minecraft 1.8 using MCP. All method and class names are the names used in the decompiled version.
The method probably have changed as the experienced behaviour changed as well.

The reason for this is that the public static IChatComponent func_179985_a(ICommandSender p_179985_0_, IChatComponent p_179985_1_, Entity p_179985_2_) throws CommandException method of the net.minecraft.util.ChatComponentProcessor class which transforms chat components, for example {"selector":"@p"} becomes {"text":"Notch"}, does not transform the chat components of hoverEvents. This is why once the hoverEvent is displayed it shows for example "@p". The reason why scores no longer work as well, might be because they changed the String getUnformattedTextForChat() for multiple chat components as they returned the evaluated value as well (this method and the other methods getting the text value probably only make sense for the net.minecraft.util.ChatComponentText class).

public static IChatComponent func_179985_a(ICommandSender p_179985_0_, IChatComponent p_179985_1_, Entity p_179985_2_) throws CommandException
{
    Object var3 = null;
    
    //...
    
    ChatStyle var9 = p_179985_1_.getChatStyle();

    if (var9 != null)
    {
        // Changed this
        // Imported net.minecraft.event.HoverEvent
        //((IChatComponent)var3).setChatStyle(var9.createShallowCopy());
        ChatStyle chatStyleCopy = var9.createShallowCopy();
        HoverEvent hoverEvent = var9.getChatHoverEvent();
        
        if (hoverEvent != null && hoverEvent.getAction() == HoverEvent.Action.SHOW_TEXT) {
            chatStyleCopy.setChatHoverEvent(new HoverEvent(HoverEvent.Action.SHOW_TEXT, func_179985_a(p_179985_0_, hoverEvent.getValue(), p_179985_2_)));
        }
        
        ((IChatComponent) var3).setChatStyle(chatStyleCopy);
    }

    Iterator var11 = p_179985_1_.getSiblings().iterator();

    while (var11.hasNext())
    {
        IChatComponent var13 = (IChatComponent)var11.next();
        ((IChatComponent)var3).appendSibling(func_179985_a(p_179985_0_, var13, p_179985_2_));
    }

    return (IChatComponent)var3;
}

Confirmed for 1.9 pre-3.

Present in 1.11.2 and snapshot 17w06a
Still affects cases 1 and 3 mentioned in Marcono1234's comment from 28/Jul/15 . Translate feature works correctly, while displaying scores does not.

still present in 18w16a

affects 1.13-pre3

Affects 1.13-pre4

Can we rename the issue to be more descriptive please?
I'm sure that counting something that was implemented more than 4 years ago as new is on the more confusing side of things.

Affects 1.13-pre5, and yes the summary should probably be updated.

@unknown, go ahead!

Oh lol, did you make me the reporter?

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I find this is extremely annoying when trying to compare users' values e.g. 'Player1's value is /value/ compared to your value of /value/'

• also affects Minecraft 1.13.2-pre2

Please do not mark unreleased versions as affected.
You don't have access to them yet.

Yep, still an issue in 1.14.3 as well. I want to use this to help report villager deaths by including the location in a hoverEvent, but cannot until this gets resolved. Is there any timeline?

I can provide a datapack that uses this mechanic for an example.