save arraylist of enums to config

as the title suggests, I have an arraylist of Enums I need to save to my config. How do i do that?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: More importantly, how do I load the arraylist back into my plugin (with the enums usable, not as strings)

 

Hi,

I have 2 suggestions:
1) Iterate over the array and add every Enum.toString() followed by a "," to a normal string. You can save that string in your config. You can recreate the array from the string using getConfig().getString(YourKey).split(","). Iterate over that new array and save every element in a new array with your EnumType using EnumType.valueof(element).
2) Add every element of the array to an ArrayList and save that list into your config. I recommand here too to convert to a string. Iterate over the arraylist and add every item to a new array to get back your original array.
This is what I can think of from my own experience. There are probably way more solutions.

Robnoo

 

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try that out now.

 

@Robnoo @Reinified
I suggest use emun.name() in stead of enum.toString()