Creating a /<plugin> reload command

i am completely stumped on this one. i have tried searching the forums and found a bunch of things that don't work basically i have a void called getConfiguration that handles getting and putting values into a hashmap with some help from another class that basically is a get return type thing.

My question is that how can i do a /reload command that will just re-allocate the hashmap values? i tried calling the method and no dice. All it did was skip over the getting the config values part(atleast i think it did) and end.

please help. i might loose my bukkit Q_Q

 

I... don't ... really get what you mean. You have to be more accurate. What exactly does you getConfiguration do? what do you want reassigned in the hashmap? what is stored exactly in the hashmap? If you have difficulty explaining, you could also (but you still have to explain) show some of your code.

 

ill show a snippet since i need to condense the code still. basically whats stored in the maps are booleans, strings, integers, and doubles. There has to be some simple way to do this correct?

Main class Method getConfiguration();

gworld is an interger
values is the other class

Code:

while (gworld < worldCount){
            worlds = getServer().getWorlds().get(gworld).getName();
           
            BooleanMap.put(worlds + "naturalspawnoverride", values.getBoolean(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Natural Spawn Override"));
           
            BooleanMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENspawn", values.getBoolean(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.Spawn"));
            IntegerMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENspawnamount", Integer.valueOf(values.getInt(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.SpawnAmount")));
            DoubleMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENspawnchance", values.getDouble(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.SpawnChance"));
            IntegerMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENhealth", values.getInt(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.Health"));
            IntegerMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENdamage", values.getInt(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.Damage"));
            StringMap.put(worlds + "naturalCHICKENspawninstead", values.getString(worlds, "Natural Spawn Properties.Chicken.SpawnInstead"));
gworld++;
        }

Here is the class values returns

Code:

public boolean getBoolean(String world, String path) throws Exception{
        config = new YamlConfiguration();
        File file = new File(mainDirectory + "/worlds/" + world + ".yml");
        config.load(file);
        return config.getBoolean(path);
       
    }

 

hashmap.clear(), run the method that loads it?

 

I would advise against loading the file (and config) every time you read a property... Unless the file is modified every instant by something you don't control, the whole loading and reading should be done only once when you (re)load the plugin.

 

Like lets say i change some stuff in my config file. i want to reload the config(re-allocate the hashmap values) through a command. which i would guess would involve re-setting all the values for the hashmap.

gives me nulls on my hashmaps which means its not reading it properly for some reason :/

Its like it skips over the while statement...

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

whats your reload method look like, your probably not resting something that needs to be rested. If you think the loop isn't running, print something out every iteration to make sure that its running.

 

It might be a stupid question, but do you reset gworld to 0?

 

I re initialized the values for both the getServer().getWorlds.size and set gworld to 0 and i end up getting a null on the getWorlds.size. here is the stack.
where line 120 is worldCount = getServer().getWorlds().size(); in the main class
and line 27 is <callclassmethod> mc.getConfiguration(); in the command handler class

Code:

[SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at me.deadlyscone.mobifier.mobifier.getConfiguration(mobifier.java:120)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at me.deadlyscone.mobifier.commandManager.onCommand(commandManager.java:27)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:40)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:166)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:473)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.handleCommand(NetServerHandler.java:821)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.chat(NetServerHandler.java:781)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:764)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.Packet3Chat.handle(Packet3Chat.java:34)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:229)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:113)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(NetworkListenThread.java:78)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:551)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:449)
2012-04-26 21:43:03 [SEVERE]    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)
2012-04-26 21:43:05