saving a location in a config

nitrousspark · Jun 15, 2012

how would i save a location in the config. like if somebody types /setlocation it will save that location in a .yml

Forge_User_58953186 · Jun 16, 2012

When you would use the search you probably will already find about twenty threads about the exact same question.

Forge_User_39609121 · Jun 16, 2012

Save it using this:

Code:

config.set("something.location.X" + player.getLocation.getX());
config.set("location.World" + player.getLocation.getWorld());
config.set("location.Y" + player.getLocation.getY());
config.set("location.Z" + player.getLocation.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" + player.getLocation.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" + player.getLocation.getPitch());

and then to get it and store it as a location use this:

Code:

Location newloc = new Location(config.get("location.World"), config.getDouble("location.X"), config.getDouble("location.Y"), config.getDouble("location.Z"), config.getFloat("location.Yaw"), config.getPitch("location.Pitch"));

I am doing that from memory so it may not be 100% correct.

Forge_User_39609121 · Jul 4, 2012

iKeirNez said: ↑

Save it using this:

Code:

config.set("something.location.X" + player.getLocation.getX());
config.set("location.World" + player.getLocation.getWorld());
config.set("location.Y" + player.getLocation.getY());
config.set("location.Z" + player.getLocation.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" + player.getLocation.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" + player.getLocation.getPitch());

and then to get it and store it as a location use this:

Code:

Location newloc = new Location(config.get("location.World"), config.getDouble("location.X"), config.getDouble("location.Y"), config.getDouble("location.Z"), config.getFloat("location.Yaw"), config.getPitch("location.Pitch"));

I am doing that from memory so it may not be 100% correct.

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Wow never realised how badly I messed up there, should be

Code:

config.set("location.World" + player.getLocation.getWorld());
config.set("location.X" + player.getLocation.getX());
config.set("location.Y" + player.getLocation.getY());
config.set("location.Z" + player.getLocation.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" + player.getLocation.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" + player.getLocation.getPitch());

Gawdzahh · Jul 18, 2012

Close but you did something wrong, player.getLocation needs to be a Location. So instead do this

Code:

Location loc = player.getLocation();
config.set("location.World" + loc.getWorld());
config.set("location.X" + loc.getX());
config.set("location.Y" + loc.getY());
config.set("location.Z" + loc.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" + loc.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" + .loc.getPitch());

Hope it helps

WarmakerT · Jul 18, 2012

Nope!

Code:

Location loc = player.getLocation();
config.set("location.World" , loc.getWorld());
config.set("location.X" , loc.getX());
config.set("location.Y" , loc.getY());
config.set("location.Z" , loc.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" , loc.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" , loc.getPitch());

Gawdzahh · Jul 18, 2012

True, haha

oscar.shrimpton.dev · Apr 5, 2014

Shouldn't that be

Code:java

Location loc = player.getLocation();
config.set("location.World" , loc.getWorld().getName());
config.set("location.X" , loc.getX());
config.set("location.Y" , loc.getY());
config.set("location.Z" , loc.getZ());
config.set("location.Yaw" , loc.getYaw());
config.set("location.Pitch" , loc.getPitch());

StaticJava · Apr 5, 2014

oscar.shrimpton.dev

Yes. You cannot save a world to a config. You must save its name.

HeavyMine13 · Apr 5, 2014

Code:java

public void onEnable() {
getConfig().options().copyDefaults(true);
saveConfig();
}
 
 
public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String commandLabel, String[] args) {
 
 
Player p = (Player) sender;
 
if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("setloc")){
 
if (sender.hasPermission("loc.set"))
{
getConfig().set("loc.world", p.getLocation().getWorld().getName());
getConfig().set("loc.x", p.getLocation().getX());
getConfig().set("loc.y", p.getLocation().getY());
getConfig().set("loc.z", p.getLocation().getZ());
saveConfig();
p.sendMessage(ChatColor.GREEN + "Location set, sir!");
return true;
}
}
if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("loctp")) {
(getConfig().getConfigurationSection("hd") == null) {
p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "The loc has not yet been set!");
}
World w = Bukkit.getServer().getWorld(getConfig().getString("loc.world"));
double x = getConfig().getDouble("loc.x");
double y = getConfig().getDouble("loc.y");
double z = getConfig().getDouble(loc.z");
p.teleport(new Location(w, x, y, z));
}
}
return true;
}

Config should be:

Code:

loc:
  world:
  x:
  y:
  z:

Have fun!

Maurdekye · Apr 5, 2014

nitrousspark Jeez guys, just save it as a string. I made a post earlier discussing this very predicament;
Maurdekye (at some point in the past) said: ↑
I recently made a very similar plugin; you can get around this by psuedo-saving the inventories to a config file. To help explain my method, I'll define two variables necessary for saving a psuedo-inventory; an Inventory, and the location of that inventory;
Code:java
Block block = /*Block with inventory associated with it*/;
Inventory inv = /*Inventory associated with the above block*/;
You end up having to save the location of the block as the key and the inventory itself as a value. This becomes interesting when you realize that Locations can't be keys for values in config files; only Strings can. So you have to make them strings. You can do this by stringing out the minimal information, by using only the xyz and worldname, as such;
Code:java
String keystring = block.getBlockX() + "|" + block.getBlockY() + "|" + block.getBlockZ() + "|" + block.getWorld().getName();
This has all the necessary information for the block's location in it, while being a string. This allows us to save it as a key. Now, we need to save the inventory as the value.

Inventories aren't serializeable, which means they can't be saved directly to a config file like some other objects. Fortunately for us, ItemStacks are serializeable. And Inventories are basically just Arrays of ItemStacks, which you can also save to config files. So, we'll save our inventory as a list of ItemStacks. Fortunately for us, there's an easy convenience function for just this purpose;
Code:java
ItemStack[] value = inv.getContents();
Now, we can save it to our config file;
Code:java
getConfig().set("sponges." + keystring, value);
saveConfig();
This process needs to be repeated for each inventory you want to save; say, looped over through a HashMap.

If you want to get the information back out of the config file and into your program, you first need to store all the information from the config to a variable. You can start by fetching every key, and sorting out all the ones that reference inventories, like so;
Code:java
ArrayList<String> keys = new ArrayList<>();
for (String key : getConfig().getKeys(true))
if (key.beginsWith("sponges.")) keys.add(key.substring(0, 8));
Then, we turn them into actual blocks by extracting the information from them, like so;
Code:java
ArrayList<Block> blocks = new ArrayList<>();
for (String key : keys) {
int[] vect = new int[3];
String[] info = key.split("\\|");
for (int i=0;i<3;i++)
vect[I] = Integer.parseInt(info);[/I]
[I]Location l = new Location(Bukkit.getWorld(info[3], vect[0], vect[1], vect[2]));[/I]
[I]blocks.add(l.getBlock());[/I]
[I]}[/I]
We then use their values to get their associated inventories;

Code:java

ArrayList<Inventory> invs = new ArrayList<>();
Code:java
 
[I]for (String key : keys) {[/I]
[I]List<?> list = getConfig().getList("sponges." + key);[/I]
[I]Inventory inv = Bukkit.createInventory(null, list.size());[/I]
[I]inv.setContents(list.toArray(new ItemStack[list.size()]));[/I]
[I]invs.add(inv);[/I]
[I]}[/I]
And that should be about it.
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