Solved Dynamic Configuration List With Values

I'm writing a plugin for my server and it has the ability to auto-promote users after a certain amount of time. I'm wanting to make it configurable though so that I don't have to rewrite code if I want to change the times or the groups that we have. The logic is such that they will not be promoted if the next highest group has a time of -1 otherwise they will be promoted if their playtime (seconds) is equal to or greater than the required number.

Here's the section in the config file pertinent to this:

Code:

groups:
- Guest: 0
- Player: 14400
- Trusted: 144000
- Moderator: -1
- Admin: -1
- Owner: -1

All I need is a way to read these entries from the config.yml file. I tried using config.getConfigurationSection() and config.getStringList() and they both come up empty.

Thanks!

 

Code:

groups:
  Guest: 0
  Player: 14400
  Trusted: 144000
  Moderator: -1
  Admin: -1
  Owner: -1

I would do it this way:

Code:java

HashMap<String, Integer> values = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
for(String key:getConfig().getConfigurationSection("groups").getKeys(false)) {
    values.put(key, getConfig().getInt("groups." + key));
}

 

I tried that before you posted and the getConfigurationSection() call is returning null. Not sure why. :\ I verified that the config file is being loaded properly by using getStringList() with this and it works 100%:

Code:

testing:
  - One
  - Two
  - Three

I'm still trying different things with no luck. Anyone?

Edit: I see the problem I was having. The config file I was trying to use was formatted incorrectly... I was using a hyphen for each member of the key, and it doesn't expect a hyphen. ^_^