Quick and dirty fix and another fix

ButtonCore/src/main/java/buttondevteam/lib/player/ChannelPlayerData.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package buttondevteam.lib.player;
+
+import buttondevteam.lib.chat.Channel;
+import org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration;
+
+public class ChannelPlayerData { //I just want this to work
+	private final PlayerData<String> data;
+	private final Channel def;
+
+	public ChannelPlayerData(String name, YamlConfiguration yaml, Channel def) {
+		data = new PlayerData<>(name, yaml, "");
+		this.def = def;
+	}
+
+	public Channel get() {
+		String str = data.get();
+		if (str.isEmpty())
+			return def;
+		return Channel.getChannels().stream().filter(c -> str.equals(c.ID)).findAny().orElse(def);
+	}
+
+	public void set(Channel value) {
+		data.set(value.toString());
+	}
+}

ButtonCore/src/main/java/buttondevteam/lib/player/ChromaGamerBase.java

@@ -109,18 +109,16 @@ public abstract class ChromaGamerBase implements AutoCloseable {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Get from the given sender. May be null,.but shouldn't be.
+	 * Get from the given sender. the object's type will depend on the sender's type. May be null, but shouldn't be.
 	 *
 	 * @param sender The sender to use
-	 * @param cl The type of the requested user object - subclasses of  {@link TBMCPlayerBase} don't work, use {@link TBMCPlayer}
 	 * @return A user as returned by a converter or null if none can supply it
 	 */
-	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	public static ChromaGamerBase getFromSender(CommandSender sender) {
-	public static <T extends ChromaGamerBase> T getFromSender(CommandSender sender, Class<T> cl) {
 		for (val converter : senderConverters) {
-			val ocg = converter.apply(sender).filter(cg -> cl.isAssignableFrom(cg.getClass()));
+			val ocg = converter.apply(sender);
 			if (ocg.isPresent())
-				return (T) ocg.get();
+				return ocg.get();
 		}
 		return null;
 	}
@@ -261,6 +259,7 @@ public abstract class ChromaGamerBase implements AutoCloseable {
 
 	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
 	private final HashMap<String, EnumPlayerData> dataenummap = new HashMap<>();
+	private ChannelPlayerData datachannel;
 
 	/**
 	 * Use from a data() method, which is in a method with the name of the key. For example, use flair() for the enclosing method of the outer data() to save to and load from "flair"
@@ -290,6 +289,19 @@ public abstract class ChromaGamerBase implements AutoCloseable {
 		return dataenummap.get(mname);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Channel
+	 *
+	 * @return A data object with methods to get and set
+	 */
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	protected ChannelPlayerData dataChannel(Channel def) { //TODO: Make interface with fromString() method and require use of that for player data types
+		ThrowIfNoUser();
+		if (datachannel == null)
+			datachannel = new ChannelPlayerData("channel", plugindata, def);
+		return datachannel;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Get player information. This method calls the {@link TBMCPlayerGetInfoEvent} to get all the player information across the TBMC plugins.
 	 * 
@@ -309,7 +321,7 @@ public abstract class ChromaGamerBase implements AutoCloseable {
 
 	//-----------------------------------------------------------------
 
-	public PlayerData<Channel> channel() {
+	public ChannelPlayerData channel() {
-		return data(Channel.GlobalChat);
+		return dataChannel(Channel.GlobalChat);
 	}
 }