NPE on config read

So I'm using the default config API in Bukkit, but am having troubles grabbing values from the config.


Main class:

Code:java

public class BukkitMC extends JavaPlugin {
 
    public static BukkitMC inst;
    public void onEnable(){
        Bukkit.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new Listeners(), this);
        getCommand("vote").setExecutor(new Commands());
        getCommand("website").setExecutor(new Commands());
        getCommand("clearchat").setExecutor(new Commands());
        getCommand("welcomebook").setExecutor(new Commands());
        getCommand("rules").setExecutor(new Commands());
 
        this.saveDefaultConfig();
        inst = this;
    }
 
    public void onDisable(){}
}

My website command(the one in question):

Code:java

if (label.equalsIgnoreCase("website")){
            sender.sendMessage(Utils.colorize(BukkitMC.inst.getConfig().getString("website-msg")));
        }

You can ignore the Utils.colorize part, that just translates the color codes. The line giving the NPE is the sender.sendMessage line.

Config:
website-msg: '&eFind our website at &7http://www.bukkitmc.net/'

It is literally that one line. I have tested to make sure sender is not null just in case. What am I doing wrong?

Still really need help on this.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Couldn't see anything wrong with it yet either. Could you post the colorize-method?

 

Sure. I use it in other plugins/code too and it works fine, and its very simple.

Code:java

public static String colorize(String s) {
          return ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', s);
    }

 

Does the npe still appear when you use a default value when getting the string from the config?

 

Yep.

So I did some testing, and after renaming the plugin's folder, its not even generating the folder back. So its not even creating a config(though I had one before), and I do have a this.saveDefaultConfig() in the onEnable as you can see.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Well, if you don't have a default config, it won't be able to save it, or do you have one?
However, that shouldn't really be the issue, especially when it still gives you an npe while providing a default value...

 

What exactly do/did you mean by default value? I might have misunderstood you, I just tried it without my colorize method And yes I do have a default config for it to save.

 

You can pass in another parameter to the getString which will be returned if the given path was not found. http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/doxygen/d9/...ection.html#a6dfb84a4c621c7f49a76a74ef61f44af

 

How would I go about using that? Im not very good at reading the docs