Solved Is it possible to get a hash map from a config file?

Hi I would like to know if you can get a hash map from a config file, the config file would look something like this:

Code:

heading:
  key1: value1
  key2: value2
  key3: value3

and the hashmap would be: Key: key1/key2/key3 and the Value: value1/value2/value3

Is it possible to do this? I would like to know because I have an idea.

Thank you for any help!

 

I also want to know for my problem to see what im actully doing :\

 

Loop through the keys in the ConfigurationSection 'heads', and them to the hashmap with their respective values.

 

oh that makes sense!

Code:java

HashMap<String, String> keysWithValues = new HashMap<String, String>();
Object[] keys = config.getConfigurationSection("heading").getKeys(false).toArray();
for(int a = 0; a < keys.length; a++) {
  String key = keys[a].toString();
  String value = config.getString("heading." + key);
  keysWithValues.put(key, value);
}

EDIT: I would normally use:

Code:java

int i = 0

but it stuffs up with the italic stuff

 

I sort of disagree with this. I'd use the serializable interface.

 

How would you achieve this?

 

There's a ConfigurationSerializable interface, or something like that.

 

Additionally ConfigurationSections are Maps.