getStringList() not working on YML file

This is an exact YML file that I have saved in my plugin's data folder:

Code:

Arenas:
  arena:
    t1spawns:
    - -525:72:-414
    t2spawns:
    - -520:73:-414
    t3spawns:
    - -523:72:-414
    t4spawns:
    - -525:72:-414
    t5spawns: []
    t6spawns: []
    t7spawns: []
    t8spawns: []
    dimension: 776395da-3f72-48fa-9ac2-d3dad761ad4d

When I call getStringList("Arenas") it returns an empty string list. Why does it do that? And how can I make it so that it returns (in this particular case) a list with one member, that member being the string "arena" ?

 

@nuclearmissile That isn't a string list, if you wanted to get the list from say... t1spawns, you would do this,

Code:java

getConfig().getStringList("Arenas.arena.t1spawns");

You separate each sub category with a "."

 

I know that, I want to get all sub categories directly below "Arenas:"

In this file, the only category directly below Arenas is "arena" but eventually there will be multiple.

 

Bump.

 

Code:java

ConfigurationSection sec = getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Arenas");
 
for (String arenaName : sec.getKeys(false)) {
    ConfigurationSection arenaSec = sec.getConfigurationSection(arenaName);
    // Do stuff.  'arenaSec' contains t1spawns, t2spawns, and so on.
}

 

nuclearmissile Like he said, that isn't a StringList, it is a ConfigurationSection. You are able to get the keys of it using ConfigurationSection#getKeys(), getKeys(false) will exclude children keys, getKeys(true) will include children. I assume you only want the parents, so use getKeys(false)