Tutorial Converting location to string to store in config

Some of you may want to store locations as strings. So I see a lot of configs like this:

Code:

location:
   x: 1
   y: 5
   z : 10

And so on. It is actually quite easy to store the location in a single string.


This is how you save the location.

Code:

Location loc = ;//your location
String name = ;//location name
String key = loc.getWorld().getName() + " , " +  loc.getX() + " , " + loc.getY() + " , " + loc.getZ() + " , " + loc.getPitch() + " , " + loc.getYaw();

config.set(name , key);

This is how you get it from the config with a simple method:

Code:

    public Location stringToLocation(String key){
        String[] split = key.split(" , ");
        if(split.length == 6){
        Location loc = new Location(Bukkit.getWorld(split[0]), Double.parseDouble(split[1]), Double.parseDouble(split[2]), Double.parseDouble(split[3]), Float.parseFloat(split[4]), Float.parseFloat(split[5]));
        return loc;
        }else{
            return null;
        }
    
    
    }

How to use this: For example, when you store a location you name "spawn", to get the location from the config, do

Code:

String spawn = config.getString("spawn");
stringToLocation(spawn);

Hope this helps

 

Your method name is not following Java Naming Conventions

 

Okay... I'll change that

 

If you want anyone to see your post you have to Tahg or quote them.

 

@nverdier I find it too trival to tag him for that

 

Ok fair enough.

EDIT: Post #300