Getting a sub-section in a config

What I'm trying to do is have a list then under that list, a sub-list which I know isn't possible. What would be an alternate to this? My config looks something like this

Code:

kits:
-name
-name2
-name3

I'd like it to look like this

Code:

kits:
-name
     -lore
-name2
     -lore
-name3
      -lore

EDIT: How do I get the name?

 

getStringList("kits.name");

 

Why not just

Code:

kits: 
  kitName:
    - Stuff
  kit2Name:
    - More stuff

 

@bwfcwalshy
I tried but then some kitnames might have the same lists, and then if they do they dont print out. Like this

Code:

kits:
  kitname1:
          -lol
   kitname2:
           -lol

But kitname2 would have the list "-lol" because kitname1 already has it

 

What? Why should the entrys be interested in what is in their list? It makes no difference if you have the same list multiple times in different places in your config, you can still access them by getList("kitnameXY")

 

@Lordloss

Code:

kits:
  kitone: &id001
  - KIT_ONE
  - KIT_TWO
  - KIT_THREE
  kittwo: *id001
  kitthree: *id001

Code:

List<String> pTemp = Arrays.asList("KIT_ONE","KIT_TWO","KIT_THREE");

playerData.set("kits.kitone", pTemp);
playerData.set("kits.kittwo", pTemp);
playerData.set("kits.kitthree", pTemp);

 

Yes, they look like that, but thats just how yaml saves them. What you can do is make a new file for each of the lists, then the config files wont look like that.

 

That makes no sense. What happens if you get kit two or three?

 

@Lordloss
it checks if they have a config (using individual player yml files) if they have a config and if they dont it sets their data to that but instead of actually printing the other lists it just does that

 

I mean what you get if you do something like getList("kits.kittwo"). It would be much easier if you give us your code.

 

@Lordloss
The whole config class? and it prints the list

 

@kampai
As it was already said, this is just how YAML stores the data. It would be useless to just write the same list again. You can save quite a lot of space by replacing duplicate entries, which is why Bukkits YAML does it. Not much for you to do there :/

But why would you even need it?

 

@I Al Istannen
Okay I see but now how would i get the "kitname1" now?

 

@kampai The same way you always do, I'm not seeing the issue here. When you get a duplicate list I'm not sure what it returns but I assume the original path or the list. What is the issue here?

 

@bwfcwalshy
I'm not trying to get the list, I'm trying to get the "kitname" sections

 

Then why you do you confuse everybody with list stuf.. config.getConfigurationSection