making a YML file for each player

I need help creating yml files for players, i have been googling it for a while now and to be honest i still dont understand it too well. Does anyone know of a good tutorial that can explain it all for me. Or any advice you can give would be appreciated. Thanks

 

Put this in your onPlayerJoin event..

PHP:

FileConfiguration config = null;
File file = new File("plugins"+File.separator+"YourPluginDirectory"+File.separator+"users"+File.separator+event.getPlayer().getName()+".yml");
if(!file.exists()){
        file.createNewFile();
        config = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(file);
        config.set("Player.Name", event.getPlayer());
        config.save();
}

That will make it so that the first time the player joins, it creates a YML file named after them in /plugin/YourPluginDirectory/users/ and inside sets the node "Player.Name" to their name.. and then saves it.. Stufy that code up there.. It's pretty simple (I'm not sure if i got it all right, I'm on my phone..)

 

Very similar to http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/2-different-config-files.107249/unread
But basically:

Code:

FileCOnfigurationConf conf = YamlConfiguration.load(...);
 
conf.setInt("test",4);
conf.save(...);

Where ... is a file, probably in the form 'playername.yml'

 

Great this works fine, how can i now get and set data from other methods/classes?

Bump

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Just use this:

Code:

FileConfiguration config = null;
File file = new File("plugins"+File.separator+"YourPluginDirectory"+File.separator+"users"+File.separator+event.getPlayer().getName()+".yml");
config = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(file);
 
config.set(.....)
config.save(...)

 

eclipse tells me to surround config.save() with try/catch. Is that neccessary.

 

Yes. Because save may throw an exception which you must handle.

 

Thanks guys i have this working now, and have been playing around with it, getting it to work in different methods/classes etc and I understand it a little better now.