Solved Land Claiming logic

So going straight to the point, I've created this land claiming plugin and It works just fine but I don't want to allow people to claim over each other. I've got some of it but I think I'm overthinking it. Here is what I thought. Since I already have a box of some sort I could probably check each location inside the box to see if the other persons claim has the same location or not, but I don't think thats a good way of going about. Any ideas?

 

@Irantwomiles

You can create an unique identifier for a claim and add it to an arraylist.
String uniqueID = location.getWorld().getName()+" "+location.getChunk().getX()+" "+location.getChunk().getZ();

Get a look of how you can do it.

Code:

public class ClaimManager
{
    private List<Claim> claims = new ArrayList<>();

    public boolean isChunkClaimed(Location loc)
    {
        Claim c = new Claim(loc);
    
        for (Claim claim : this.claims)
       {
            if (claim.isEqual(c))
            {
                 return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }



    private class Claim
    {
    
        private String uniqueID;
    
    
        private Claim(Location loc)
       {
            this.uniqueID = loc.getWorld().getName()+" " + loc.getChunk().getX()+" "+loc.getChunk().getZ();
        }
    
        private boolean isEqual(Claim c)
        {
             return c.getUniqueID().equals(uniqueID);
        }
    }
}

 

It's not done by chunks so this will not work, I'm using two locations to create a rectangle/square.

 

@Irantwomiles This is almost the same. Create a class with a variable minimum point and maximum, and store taht class in an arraylist. You just have to do a method in this class for check if the location is in.

 

For anyone that is wondering the same thing in the future. I looped through all of the locations in the two selected areans and checked if any preexisting claims existed there.