Serialization Help Please! (Config.yml)

EDIT: Solved, my plugin was loading before Multiverse plugin was loaded, so the code that relied on Multiverse stuff was being called and borking.

Hey there. So, I'm writing an arena-esque plugin, and I need (want) the ability to create maps (levels) on the fly, by declaring the different spawns and variables for each level, such as team sizes, minimum players to start the game, what world it is in, the red team spawn, blue team spawn, etc. And I need to save the list of all these levels to the config.yml, and then be able to load them.

So basically, I have a class 'Level', that holds data such as 'redSpawn' for the red team spawn, 'teamSize' for the max team sizes, and 'levelWorld' for the world the arena/level is located in. My first step was to serialize this class with 'ConfigurationSerialization'. However, I quickly ran into the problem in that I have Locations (such as 'redspawn') inside this class, so I had to create another class 'SerializableLocations' that is essentially that, a class that has methods for inputting and getting a Location from this serializable class. which is starting to confuse me already lol.

It was working for a little while, and the SaveLevels() function seems to be working alright, but when I run LoadLevels(), I get a HUGE massive amount of errors (literally cannot even see all of the errors because the console can't scroll up that far).

Basic recap: I have a List of the class 'Level', and I need to be able to save this List to file, and load it from file. The file, in this case, being config.yml.


Relevant code:

Save/Load functions

Code:

//'levels' is the List<Level> variable that I need to save/load.
//Used for saving the levels to harddrive
    public void SaveLevels()
    {
        getConfig().set("Level", levels);
        saveConfig();
        getLogger().info("Levels have been successfully saved!");
    }
 
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void LoadLevels()
    {
        levels = (List<Level>) getConfig().get("Level");
        getLogger().info("Levels have been successfully loaded!");
    }

Level Serialization-Related Stuff

Code:

//Heading of the class
@SerializableAs("Level")
public class Level implements ConfigurationSerializable
{
 
//................
//Level Serialization------------------------------
 
    //Constructor for deserialization
    public Level(Map<String, Object> map)
    {
        this.name = (String) map.get("name");
        //this.levelWorld =  (World) serializationMap.get("levelWorld");
        this.redSpawn = ((SerializableLocation)map.get("redSpawn")).getLocation();
        this.redShopSpawn = ((SerializableLocation)map.get("redShopSpawn")).getLocation();
        this.blueSpawn = ((SerializableLocation)map.get("blueSpawn")).getLocation();
        this.blueShopSpawn = ((SerializableLocation)map.get("blueShopSpawn")).getLocation();
        this.spectatorSpawn = ((SerializableLocation)map.get("spectatorSpawn")).getLocation();
        this.teamSize = (Integer) map.get("teamSize");
        this.minPlayers = (Integer) map.get("minPlayers");
        this.rounds = (Integer) map.get("rounds");
   
        //TEMP WAY TO LOAD WORLD
        this.levelWorld = redSpawn.getWorld();
    }
 
    //Returns serialization map of class variables
    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> serialize()
    {
 
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        map.put("name", this.name);
        map.put("redSpawn", new SerializableLocation(this.redSpawn));
        map.put("redShopSpawn", new SerializableLocation(this.redShopSpawn));
        map.put("blueSpawn", new SerializableLocation(this.blueSpawn));
        map.put("blueShopSpawn", new SerializableLocation(this.blueShopSpawn));
        map.put("spectatorSpawn", new SerializableLocation(this.spectatorSpawn));
        map.put("teamSize", this.teamSize);
        map.put("minPlayers", this.minPlayers);
        map.put("rounds", this.rounds);
 
        return map;
    }
 

And then the SerializableLocation class

Code:

@SerializableAs("SerializableLocation")
public class SerializableLocation implements ConfigurationSerializable
{
    private double x,y,z;
    private String world;
 
 
    //Constructor for creating manually
    public SerializableLocation(Location loc)
    {
        x=loc.getX();
        y=loc.getY();
        z=loc.getZ();
        world=loc.getWorld().getName();
    }
 
    //Constructor for deserialization
    public SerializableLocation(Map<String, Object> map)
    {
        x = (Double) map.get("x");
        y = (Double) map.get("y");
        z = (Double) map.get("z");
 
        world = (String) map.get("world");
    }
 
    //Function for getting the Location location of this class
    public Location getLocation()
    {
        World w = Bukkit.getWorld(world);
        if(w==null)
            return null;
        Location toRet = new Location(w,x,y,z);
        return toRet;
    }
 
 
    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> serialize() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        map.put("x", x);
        map.put("y", y);
        map.put("z", z);
        map.put("world", world);
        return map;
    }
}

It was working alright for a while, but then everything went haywire and bam bam huge major errors. I would really really appreciate any help!

Oh, and incase it is relevant, here is what the saved file looked like on a test example of my save (it seems to save fine, it's just the loading that messes everything up)

Code:

Level:
- ==: Level
  blueSpawn:
    ==: SerializableLocation
    z: -176.58313694693612
    world: TehTestWorld
    y: 208.0
    x: -230.00281527362333
  teamSize: 4
  spectatorSpawn:
    ==: SerializableLocation
    z: -176.40320195753944
    world: TehTestWorld
    y: 221.0
    x: -206.41364764311825
  redShopSpawn:
    ==: SerializableLocation
    z: -176.55977998042846
    world: TehTestWorld
    y: 204.0
    x: -180.26890594822038
  name: BattleArena
  minPlayers: 1
  rounds: 5
  blueShopSpawn:
    ==: SerializableLocation
    z: -176.55605467182383
    world: TehTestWorld
    y: 204.0
    x: -232.30000001192093
  redSpawn:
    ==: SerializableLocation
    z: -176.5525996756925
    world: TehTestWorld
    y: 208.0
    x: -183.14052871241265

 

try using
(new SerializableLocation(map.get("redSpawn")).getLocation());
instead of
((SerializableLocation)map.get("redSpawn")).getLocation();

 

I've isolated the problem even further. It doesn't even seem to be a problem with the serialization, but rather with using Multiverse Worlds with my plugin.

I need a substitute for:
World w = Bukkit.getWorld(world);

I was passing in the name of a Multiverse world, and Bukkit.getWorld("MVWorldName"); was returning null. How can I make it so that passing it the String name of a Multiverse world will return the 'World' object, so that I can use that in locations?


EDIT: Alright, I've isolated the problem even further! It's not that Bukkit.getWorld doesn't return Multiverse worlds, but my plugin calls the LoadWorlds() function BEFORE Multiverse Plugin is loaded, so the worlds aren't loaded yet. How can I make it so that Multiverse plugin loads before mine does?

 

add an softdepend