Creating a plugin directory|Folder

Hello there, my title is pretty self explanatory, how do I create a new folder from my plugin?
I've seen many threads for creating a new config.yml file but not for a folder. I'm going to use it the same way that essentials creates and uses it's "Userdata" folder that contains, clearly, userdata

In addition to that, how would I go about adding files into that folder with the name of the file as the name of the player and inside the file to be whatever I want?

I greatly appreciate all help! Thanks in advance

 

Using Bukkit's 'saveDefaultConfig' file, will create the directory for you.

To create one yourself:

Code:

File f = new File(plugin.getDataFolder() + "/");
if(!f.exists())
    f.mkdir();

 

TheGreenGamerHD I get this error under ".exists":
"The method exists() is undefined for the type Seekable.File" ?
Also I assume "f" in that instance would the the file name or no?

 

Did you import java.io.File; ?
.exists() returns if a file is existent (returns true/false)

f wouldn't be the file name, it'd be a variable for the root directory we're creating

 

Java is interesting like that. A directory and a file are both labelled under the "File" object. There is no "Directory" object. I can only assume they did that because they share so many similar attributes.

 

TheGreenGamerHD
There was no import option for that so I manually added it and I got this:
"The import java.io.File collides with another import statement"

Here's a list of all my imports if this helps:

Code:text

 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.org.ibex.nestedvm.util.Seekable.File;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerJoinEvent;
import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginManager;
import org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredServiceProvider;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import net.milkbowl.vault.economy.Economy;
import java.io.File;
 

 

remove the import "import org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.org.ibex.nestedvm.util.Seekable.File"

 

jayfella ha I assumed it was that, not even sure where that was imported from

Anyway I tried starting my test server: "NullPointerException" What was that code TheGreenGamerHD supposed to do anyway? I couldn't tell :S I wanted to be able to name it and place it within the existing folder that the config.yml is in

 

Luke_Lax

Code:java

 
File newFolder = new File(plugin.getDataFolder() + File.separator + "newfolder");
File newfile = new File(newFolder + File.separator + "newfile.yml");
 

 

@TheGreatGamerHD
Sorry to be a noob but how would I use this?
@jeyfella
I tried something like:

Code:java

File newFolder = new File(plugin.getDataFolder() + File.separator + "PlayerAccounts");
if (!(newFolder.exists())) {
new File(plugin.getDataFolder() + File.separator + "PlayerAccounts");
}

in my onEnable but again I get a "java.lang.NullPointerException" ?

jayfella

I managed to get this working:

Code:java

    File dir = new File("PlayerAccounts");
    if (!dir.exists()) {
    this.logger.info("[" + pdfFile.getName() + "] Could not find your player account folder, Generating it!");
    dir.mkdir();
    } else {
        this.logger.info("[" + pdfFile.getName() + "] Found the PlayerAccounts folder");
    }

but how would I add the new files to that specific folder?

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