Loading Items From Config

just wondering how I could do this, any help is appreciated

Ok what I mean is


Config.yml, yes it's not layer out right it is just an example
Level1:
Item: Material.Diamond_Pickaxe
Enchantments:
- Sharpness,3
- Protection, 5
Name:
- &2Level 1 Thing
Lore:
- null


Is that possible?

 

if when you save the item to the config you simply do
config.set(path, YourItemStack);
then you can retrieve it with
config.getItemStack(YourPath);

 

This would be possible, however it would be more practical with the following chnges:
- I would suggest using the item ID seeing as most people don't know the Bukkit enum values.
- Enchantment IDs would also be more practical seeing as most people don't know the Bukkit enum values.
- The lore section can be completely left out if null and you can check if it exists or not in your code.

Enchantments would be a standard map, name would just be a string, and lore would be a string list. The config would be formatted like so:

Code:

Level1:
  Item: 278
  Enchantments:
    16: 3
    0: 5
  Name: "&2Level 1 Thing"
  Lore:
  - "..."
  - "..."

Read up on the Bukkit Configuration API to figure out how to do all this, since it is fairly straightforward. If your IDE has code completion, you can simply scroll through the suggestions on getConfig() to see everything your config can do. The javadoc is here: http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/configuration/ConfigurationSection.html

 

You can use the valueOf method in enumerations.
Example with potion effects:

config:

Code:

Potion1:
  Effect: BLINDNESS
  Amplifier: 0
  Duration: 10
etc etc etc

Code to scan it:

Code:java

ConfigurationSection cs = getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Potion1");
PotionEffect eff = new PotionEffect(PotionEffectType.valueOf(cs.getString("Effect").toUpperCase()), cs.getInt("Amplifier"), cs.getInt("Duration"));

There may be some errors as I literally typed this on a tablet, so yea. Don't copy the code, use it as a reference. You should be able to figure out how to do the same thing but with materials and enchantments.