Config Troubles

Alright, I have a question.
I am coding a minigame plugin, and on every update, the config.yml and messages.yml configs will change their format. I use Config-Version to sync the config's version to the plugin's version. On a new update, if the config version does not equal the actual version, it will add the changes made. How do I do this instead of just using config.delete() and saveDefaultConfig?

 

Why would you bother with config versioning? Just guarantee that the appropriate values are there on startup, and if not, set them.

 

He said that the config/messages will change their entire format every single version.

I think you have a design problem if you know there will be an entire format change every update.

 

What is your "format"? How is it changing every time?

 

1Rogue Garris0n
Im sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I typed this up at 10:00 PM . What I meant to say was that I was likely to add new things and remove others on every version update. I am making a minigame plugin, so each update will include large changes.
EDIT: Is there a way to loop through all of the values in the config and store them in an object HashMap<String, Object>?

 

Removing others suggests a lack of backwards compatibility, which you should fix.

Adding new ones just involves enabling copyDefaults...

 

copyDefaults overrides the values in the config, so it would be the same as deleting and restoring a new config..?

 

I believe it copies in any values that are in the default config but not in the config.

 

What is it you are saving to the config?

 

1Rogue Garris0n
I am trying to save any new values that I added in my default config to the plugin.datafolder config if it already exists.
Garrison does this mean that the config will be overriden if set to true? I am not really understanding what they are trying to say
http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org...nfigurationOptions.html#copyDefaults(boolean)

 

So then just have a check if the values aren't there and set them if they aren't. You can use an enum to store config values and then iterate over the values to look for everything.

 

So like this..?

Code:java

public enum Blah {
WOW("ConfigLine1"),
BOB("Meepers2"),
MEEP("ConfigVersion")
}

If the enum set up is like that, how do you get the string next to the enum? And iterate through everything?

 

Here's an example:

https://github.com/CodeLanx/LanxLib...delanx/lanxlibexample/config/ConfigValue.java

You simply provide the path and the default value, and then when startup up you can iterate through the config values:

Code:java

YamlConfiguration file = /* your config file */;
for (YourEnum conf : YourEnum.values()) {
    if (!file.isSet(conf.getPath())) {
        file.set(conf.getPath(), conf.getDefault());
    }
}