Config & Chunks

Two parts to this thread. First, how would I check if a YML file has a certain path. For example, if I wanted to check if the config had the path "world". How would I check that? If that path didn't exist, how would I create it?

Secondly, how should I store chunks in a config.yml file? Not nesecarily the chunks themselves, but the locations that the chunk contains if that is a better practice. This way I can do certain things when a chunk is interacted with if it is in a yml file.

Basically I need to use both of these because I am creating a method to "claim" a chunk. The claimed chunk will be stored in a yml file with the player's UUID and the chunk that was claimed.

 

Have you tried looking in the JavaDocs?

Store the chunk's x and z coordinates.

 

@teej107 For the first one, I found the contains method, now if I wanted to create a new path, would I use createSection or createPath?

 

@henderry2019 createPath is an actual method? You can also just store the value at a certain path and it will be created for you.

 

@teej107 ok, another thing is how would I loop through all of the paths within a path? For example:

Code:

player:
    chunk1:
        x:
        z:
    chunk2:
        x:
        z:

How would I loop through the number of chunks that are in the path? Or how would I get how many there are? Edit: Without having previous knowledge of how many exist.

 

@henderry2019 Again,

 

@teej107 Just checked, didn't find anything relevant.

 

There is a method that can return the keys in a Set.

 

@teej107 I found the getKeys and getValues methods, but which would I use and how would I use them?

 

Well it says that is returns all the keys (and values if you are using getValues) in a Set/Map. Maps and Sets have a #size() method.

 

@teej107 Two things. One, what if I want to get the keys of a key? So my config will be set up like this:

How would I get all of the keys within the playerUUID WITHOUT getting the values of the x and z keys.

Two, how can I only get CERTAIN keys? When I am checking for the number of chunks they have, I don't want to include the other things like maxChunks. Would I just do getKeys#size() - 1?

 

@henderry2019 Here is a more simple idea. Use a StringList instead to save your x and z coordinates

 

@teej107 So something like this:

Code:

playerUUID:
    chunk1:
      - [x-coord]
      - [z-coord]

Still, how would I get how many chunks there are?

 

@henderry2019 No. Like this

Code:

playerUUID:
- 'x z'
- 'x z'
- 'x z'

 

@teej107 how would I do that?