Best way to deal with config files

I've been looking at source codes and reading around a bit and I still can't figure out the best way to deal with file configs. I don't use any special wrappers or something for FileConfiguration, but I'm just looking for the best way to deal with each file.

Problem?
One way or another, it seems like I have to pass an instance of the main class to any class that wants to have access to the files. Is there a way around this? I have a class designated to deal with all the config files, but to load all the config files I need an instance of the main class in order to get the files.
EX:

Code:java

 
private File settingsFile = new File(plugin.getDataFolder(), "Settings.yml");
private FileConfiguration settings = new YamlConfiguration();
 

So basically I just want to know the best way to deal with this so I don't have to pass an instance of my mainclass to every freaking class that needs access to a config file.

Thanks!

 

Why do you need to pass the instance of the main class into every other class when you have a separate class for the config? You should just create a method inside of the config class such as addValue() which will require a string or some type of data type that you want to add. Then just use the configs instance of the main class rather than having a instance of the main class for each individual class.

To get the main class instance into the config class you can simply create a new instance of the config class, so for example it would look something like this in the main class to set up the config class

Code:

OnEnable(){
  ConfigHandler handler = new ConfigHandler(this);
}

Hopefully I answered your question correctly, best of luck

 

That's the exact same thing as passing the MainClass through to get the config. You would still need to give whatever class access to and instance of itself if you wanted to access ConfigHandler at all.
I found a simple solution to my own problem:
For the ConfigManager you would just do:

Code:java

 
private ConfigManager() { }
public ConfigManager instance = new ConfigManager();
public ConfigManager getInstance()
{
    return instance;
}
public void setup(MainClass plugin) { .... }
 

Then in your MainClass you would do

Code:java

 
ConfigManager.getInstance().setup(this);
 

After this, you can use

Code:java

 
ConfigManager.getInstance()
 

and you can have a single static instance for that class so all none static methods will return everything just fine as long as you did everything in the 'setup(MainClass plugin)' method.

 

unrealdesign That's what I was trying to explain to you, but anyway

Looks good, best of luck with your plugin development

 

Alright thanks, you too

 

Credit to : PogoStick29

 

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I and jthort were talking about