[1 VIEW IN 20 MINUTES?] Getting the location of a block stored in a HashMap

I'm trying to spawn some mobs at a block and have them fly out in 8 directions.
I can accomplish everything except actually getting the block I want them to spawn at.
When a player types "!um" in the chat (um standing for Undead Mortar which is irrelevant, but whatever), I want to get the location of a block that is already stored in a HashMap and spawn the mobs there.
The HashMap stores Location as the key, and Player as the value.
And you can't just do hashmap.get(key); which would make life easier.

Any help would be much appreciated and if something in my explanation doesn't make sense, let me know!
- frozenpoptart

 

First of all, you should never store a player object in a hashmap. Instead, store the player's name, then do Bukkit.getPlayer(name) to get the player.

Also, instead of storing the location, try converting locations to string, then converting the string back to a location

Code:

    public static String locToString(Location l){
        String x = Integer.toString(l.getBlockX());
        String y = Integer.toString(l.getBlockY());
        String z = Integer.toString(l.getBlockZ());
        String pitch = Integer.toString((int) l.getPitch());
        String yaw = Integer.toString((int) l.getYaw());
        return l.getWorld().getName()+","+x+","+y+","+z+","+pitch+","+yaw;
    }
 
    public static Location stringToLoc(String s){
        String[] data = s.split(",");
        World w = Bukkit.getWorld(data[0]);
        Integer x = Integer.parseInt(data[1]);
        Integer y = Integer.parseInt(data[2]);
        Integer z = Integer.parseInt(data[3]);
        Integer pitch = Integer.parseInt(data[4]);
        Integer yaw = Integer.parseInt(data[5]);
        return new Location(w, x, y, z, pitch, yaw);
    }