Save/Load ItemStack[], figured out save, but how to load?

Code:

public static void save(ItemStack[] stack, String name, Plugin plg){
FileConfiguration cfg = null;
File file = new File(plg.getDataFolder(), name + ".shopinv");
cfg = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(file);
cfg.set("CONTENT", stack);
try {
cfg.save(file);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

I use this to save an ItemStack Array to a config file. But how can I load it to an Array again? The only method available is: getItemStack("path"); But I need all of the ItemStacks in an array, so I don't know the individual paths. Please help

 

Use

Code:

List<ItemStack[]> list = new ArrayList<ItemStack[]>();

It's a list of arrays, so to get a specific item stack do

Code:

list.get(<index of stack>);

 

You don't understand, I save an ItemStack (Taken directly from an Iventory) using the FileConfiguration.set function. But I can only load 1 ItemStack while I did save an array. Maybe this helps, this is my config file content:

Code:

CONTENT:
- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack
  type: DIAMOND_SWORD
  meta:
    ==: ItemMeta
    meta-type: UNSPECIFIC
    enchants:
      KNOCKBACK: 2
      DAMAGE_ALL: 3
- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack
  type: ITEM_FRAME
  amount: 64
- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack
  type: SIGN
  amount: 64
- null
- null
 
... And so on

 

Ah, now I see, you can only get one ItemStack from a list of ItemStacks in your FileConfiguration, and you can only save one to it?

How about instead of doing

Code:

 
CONTENT:[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]type: DIAMOND_SWORD[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]meta:[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]==: ItemMeta[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]meta-type: UNSPECIFIC[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]enchants:[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]KNOCKBACK: 2[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]DAMAGE_ALL: 3[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]type: ITEM_FRAME[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]amount: 64[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]type: SIGN[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]amount: 64[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]- null[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]- null[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]... And so on 

[/FONT]

do

Code:

idlimit: 2[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]id1: [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] type: DIAMOND_SWORD [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] meta:[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] ==: ItemMeta [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] meta-type: UNSPECIFIC [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] enchants: KNOCKBACK: 2 [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas] DAMAGE_ALL: 3[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]id2:[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]- ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]type: ITEM_FRAME[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas][FONT=Consolas]amount: 64[/FONT][FONT=Consolas]

[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]

And cycle through each id<number> list by incrementing the number up to idlimit.[/CODE][/CODE][/CODE][/CODE]Ignore the weird font issue, copy paste didn't work out xD[/CODE][/FONT]

That post is a bit mangled and editing is not helping it xD Sorry

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

I can save multiple ItemStacks, but I can only load one. I could try that, but there must be a much simpler way of doing this.

 

Your "CONTENT" node is saved as an array but you can't load it as an array, you must load it as a list, use get() and store it as a List<ItemStack> (without the [] on ItemStack because those mean that it's an array...)

 

So, like this? :

Code:

    public static ItemStack[] get(String name){
        FileConfiguration cfg = null;
        File file = new File(plg.getDataFolder(), name + ".shopinv");
        cfg = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(file);
        List<ItemStack> Inv = (List<ItemStack>) cfg.getList("CONTENT");
        return (ItemStack[]) Inv.toArray();
    }

 

Why do you keep manually loading the config every time ? Use getConfig() ! It's alot faster than reloading the config every time.

And basically, yes, that's how you can do it.
You can use "inv.toArray(new ItemStack[0]);" to avoid casting The object sent as argument inside that method will just be used as a type reference, not as value.