Solved Reading an ItemStack[] from config.

Just like the title, how do we read an ItemStack[] from config?
the code up till now:

Code:

ItemStack is = new ItemStack(Material.BONE);
ItemStack isis = new ItemStack(Material.DIRT);
ItemStack[] ais = {is, isis};

getConfig().set("data", ais);

And the problem is reading the data to get an ItemStack[] again.

 

Save the names of the Material's to the config, loop through the list, and create a new ItemStack and use Material.getMaterial(String) to get the value of it.

 

That would work, but I even need to get ItemMeta.

 

(If you want to get the meta of the item)
ItemMeta meta=stack.getItemMeta();
stack.setItemMeta(meta);

or if it's a skull

SkullMeta meta=(SkullMeta) skull.getItemMeta();
skull.setItemMeta(meta);

if you want to save the meta then just get it and put the value into your config

getConfig().set("my.path.to.itemstack.name", stack.getItemMeta().getDisplayName());

 

That would work but will mess up for an ItemStack[], because every Item in the array will have different lore and names..

 

@Link_Awesomesause
You can save a List (e.g. An arraylist) in the config and retrieve it with config.get(String). You need to cast it back to a List<ItemStack> and they should all be correct and with ItemMeta. Works for me, should do that for you too.
To convert an array to a List, you can use Arrays.asList(array). To convert it back there is a method List#toArray() (Stackoverflow).