[Solved] translateAlternateColorCodes Help

My code:

Code:

        final String prefixColor1 = this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("Prefix Color");
        final String prefixColor = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', prefixColor1);

Console gives me a "java.lang.NullPointerException" on the line with ChatColor.translate

Any help? I can't see the problem..

 

Are spaces allowed for a config node? I'm really not sure. Anyway, try to give it a default:
String prefixColor = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("Prefix Color", "&4Default text"));

 

Yeah I know for a fact spaces are allowed, I have it in other places of my plugin with no problem.

Also, I can't add that third argument or else Eclipse throws me the error that the method only allows 2 arguments.

 

getString("Prefix Color", "&4Default text") <- two arguments, not 3. Also JavaDocs tell it works:
http://jd.bukkit.org/doxygen/d9/dfb...ection.html#a6dfb84a4c621c7f49a76a74ef61f44af

 

Code:

        final String prefixColor = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("Prefix Color", "&aDefault Prefix"));

This code now displays "Default Prefix" in green. Now how can I get it to display the input from the config file?

 

Then either your config file doesn't contain it or it's not allowed to have spaces in the node.

 

The section of my config (just changed it to remove spaces):

Code:

Messages:
  #Prefix displayed before EasyVote messages
  Prefix: [EasyVote]
 
  #The color of the prefix, use Minecraft color codes
  PrefixColor: &4
 
  #The color of the messages that come after the prefix, use Minecraft color codes
  MessageColor: &f

My code:

Code:

        final String prefix = this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("Prefix");
        final String prefixColor = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("PrefixColor"));
        final String messageColor = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', this.getConfig().getConfigurationSection("Messages").getString("MessageColor"));

Still get NullPointerException on the first line that involves ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes


Anybody know why?!

Bump..

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

 

Learn YAML. need quotes to force it to a string since it's starts with a &

Code:

Messages:
  #Prefix displayed before EasyVote messages
  Prefix: [EasyVote]
 
  #The color of the prefix, use Minecraft color codes
  PrefixColor: "&4"
 
  #The color of the messages that come after the prefix, use Minecraft color codes
  MessageColor: "&f"