Solved Getting a List from Config

I'm getting an error on "config" (line 23) I don't know what's wrong..

/help class:

Code:java

package me.MirrorRealm.kadmin;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandExecutor;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
 
public class Help implements CommandExecutor{
public Main plugin;
public Help(Main plugin){
this.plugin = plugin;
}
public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String commandLabel, String[] args){
Player player = (Player) sender;
if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("help")){
if (!(player.hasPermission("command.help"))){
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "You do not have permission");
return true;
}
if (args.length == 0){
player.sendMessage(plugin.getConfig().getList(config.help));
return true;
}
}
}
}
 

config:

Code:

config:
  help:
    - "help"
    - "hello"

 

Code:java

player.sendMessage(plugin.getConfig().getList(config.help));

When you get the list, you're getting it from a String.

Code:java

player.sendMessage(plugin.getConfig().getList("config.help"));

EDIT: Also, I don't believe you can send players a List.. if you can, it will look really bad.

 

not a List, but a String[] is possible, it just displays them as if they were separate Player.sendMessage(String) calls, each on a new line.

 

metalhedd
Yes, I do know that.

 

so if you could pass a List<String> there's no reason to think it would look bad.. You could also just call toArray on the list you back.

 

So...what should I use?

 

Code:java

String[] name = this.getConfig().getStringList("nameoflist").toArray(new String[0);

Then to display to user

Code:java

for(int i = 0; i <name.length; i++){
player.sendmessage(name[i]);
}[/i]

 

Or you could do

Code:java

List<String> list = this.getConfig().getStringList("Key.To.List");
for (String string : list){
    player.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARKAQUA + string);
}

 

Also, is there an easy way to change the chatcolors so that they are compatible with the &x way?
I know that you can replace "&7" (or whatever) with ChatColor.GRAY but is there an easier way?

 

metalhedd
If you could(but you can't, the argument for sendMessage is a String), it would look like an ID of the class's instance. But yes, you could just convert it to an array.

 

The way I do colors like that in configs is as followed:

Code:

config.yml
StringList:
    - &a test1
    - &a test2

Code:java

public class Test extends JavaPlugin{
public static Test test;
 
@Override
public void onDisable(){
 
}
@Override
public void onEnable(){
 
}
@EventHandler
public boolean onCommand(CommandSender s, Command c, String s, String[] a){
List<String> test1 = this.getConfig().getStringList("StringList");
test1 = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', test1)
if (s.equalsIgnoreCase("test"){
for( String string : test1){
s.sendMessage(test1);
}
}
}
 
}

I believe that this snippet of code is what you are looking for:
test1 = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', test1)