Bukkit Custom Config Generation

Hey minecrafters, i am creating a plugin for my server(May be released to the public later on) and im having a hard time trying to generate a custom config file. Yes i have looked at http://wiki.bukkit.org/Introduction_to_the_New_Configuration but that didnt help much so i tried doing it a different way. My plugin's src code is here: https://github.com/danmw3/ServerPlugin
when it tries to create the config file it usually gives me a null pointer exception.
If you need any other details just tell me and ill try to provide them.
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.3.1
Bukkit Version: 1.3.1 R2.0
Java Version: 7
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
IDE: Eclipse

Thx,
danmw3

 

Code:

File conf;
FileConfiguration config;
@Override
public void onEnable() {
if (conf == null) {
conf = new File(getDataFolder(), "die.yml");
}
config = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(conf);
saveConf();
log.info("[Plugin] Enabled!");
 }
public void saveConf() {
if (conf == null || config == null) {
}
try {
config.save(conf);
} catch (IOException e) {
log.severe("[Plugin] Unable to Save Config.");
}
}
}

Try this o.o

 

that works or u could try this

Code:java

public void createconfig1() {
        // Creates config.yml
        File configfile = new File(getDataFolder() + File.separator + "config.yml");
        // If config.yml doesnt exit
        if (!configfile.exists()) {
            // Tells console its creating a config.yml
            this.getConfig().addDefault("this.is.aa.string",
                    "yo i am aaa string");
            this.getConfig().options().copyDefaults(true);
            this.saveDefaultConfig();
        }
    }

all u need to do now is to put createconfig() into your onEnable()

 

Thx for the fast reply and yes that did work but i want to create a class file that holds the config creation code so if i need to create more configs i wont have to re-type that code for every config. I have tried to create a class called ConfigManager and then created a method with the config creation code and copied over the saveConf method. Then in the main class i put public ConfigManager cm; then in the onEnable method i put cm.createConf(); then i also put cm.saveConf(); but that didnt work. Any idea?

 

make a new class called what ever you want heres a example
https://gist.github.com/3174347

 

then what would i put in the onEnable method to create the config?

 

exact same thing you would do with normal voids

 

could u put up an example of the main plugin class that contains the code that goes in the onEnable method to generate the config? srry im kind of a noob when it comes to custom config generation lol

 

How would I get the config outside of that void/class?

 

That approach more than necessary, and will only change the file named config.yml