Solved Dynamic Plugin Configuration - Setting defaults in code

Hi,

This feels like a bit of a nooby question, but anyway...
I'm writing a plugin which depends on other settings from another plugin. What I'm trying to do is get values from the other plugin's config (done this fine) and use them in my plugin's config.yml.

The problem I'm having is getting it to generate the defaults dynamically using code, not those set out inside the config.yml. Using the API for addDefault() and saveDefaultConfig() doesn't seem to put this configuration information into a newly generated file (inside the plugin's folder on a server) - it just takes what is in the config.yml and doesn't attach these. The way I used to do it worked, now it doesn't? :/

Any ideas?
Here's a copy of the method which manages this.

Code:java

protected static FileConfiguration CONFIG;
 
public void onEnable() {
     CONFIG = this.getConfig();
}
 
 
private void addDefaults() {
     for (Group g : MANAGER.getGroups()) { //getGroups() returns an array of Group instances
          CONFIG.addDefault("rank-settings." + g.getName() + ".time-to-next-rank", 1L); //getName() returns a String
          // 1L - Testing config generation
     }
     CONFIG.options().copyDefaults(true);
     saveDefaultConfig();
}

 

Personally i have never used the addDefault,

Try .set
and then saveConfig();

 

Well short answer, no. This will set them every time I load the plugin. The purpose of defaults is that it sets them if the config.yml doesn't exist in the plugin's folder.

Edit: Solved it by using only saveConfig(), no set().