Plugin Help What's the best way to go about this(custom configuration)?

I'm honestly not good with Bukkit configuration. I want to create code that when a player joins the server their name, ip, uuid, and custom rank(which is a string) is added to a custom configuration file. I will be able to take it from there.

Example of what the configuration file should look like:

Code:

IEATCLOCKS:
- 127.0.0.1
- SAD2-DSA3-AD4R-ZZZX-SSS
- PLAYER
Notch:
- 127.0.0.2
- DWSZ-AWDG-XASR-ASXV-WWWW
- GLOBAL_ADMIN

Thank you.

 

@IEatClocks
You save a List<String> with their name as path. Just use Config#set(String path, List<String> list). Retrieve it with Config#getStringList(String path). Have a look here. Also quite intersting is the last section there (but I would read the whole page).

 

@timtower
In the plugin: sure.
Afaik you can't serialize a map though, it will save the Map.Entry entries and just blow up if you load the config. So, for saving, a List is better, I think. (I will never grasp of where to place commas in english. Well)
I wouldn't do it like this though. I would create an object to represent this and then implement ConfigurationSerializable. And then save a list of these object. Which is why I linked to this chapter in the wiki page (the "there" link)

Clocks is quite a nice song though. (Too uncreative to think of a comment about your pun, so I will just take his username... I am sorry, I swear!)