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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

You're reading from   Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition Create and customize your very own Minecraft server using Java and the Spigot API

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785883026
Length 158 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Cody M. Sommer Cody M. Sommer
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Preface 1. Deploying a Spigot Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning the Bukkit API 3. Creating Your First Bukkit Plugin 4. Testing on the Spigot Server 5. Plugin Commands 6. Player Permissions 7. The Bukkit Event System 8. Making Your Plugin Configurable 9. Saving Your Data 10. The Bukkit Scheduler Index

Reading and storing the configured values


Once your configuration file is loaded, you must be able to access the file and read the values that are set. The JavaPlugin class, which is extended by the main class, has a getConfig method, which returns FileConfiguration. This FileConfiguration class is what we will use to get the values that we are looking for. You will see that the FileConfiguration class has methods such as getInt, getDouble, getString, and getBoolean; all of these methods take a string as a parameter. The string parameter is the path to the value. To fully understand the path, we need to look at a YAML configuration that contains nested keys. An example of this is the plugin.yml file that we were just working with. If we want to get the MobEnhancer string from the configuration, then the path will be name. If we want to retrieve the description of the mobenhancerreload command, then the path will be commands.mobenhancerreload.description. Therefore, the Java code needed to...

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