plugin.yml, getting children of a property.

I have a property called world.places that i want to contain many different names (chosen by the user) which then have more sub-properties. A little hard to illustrate with words so ill show some yml

Code:

world:
  places:
    Userdefinedstuff1:
      something: value
      somethingelse: value2
    Userdefinedstuff2:
      something: value
      somethingelse: value2

So from my code i want to do something like this

Code:

for (String s : config.getChildrenOf("world.places"))
{
    if (config.contains("world.places."+s+".Userdefinedstuff1"))
    //and so on

Of course, config.getChildrenOf is a function I made up to represent what want to do.

How can I achieve this functionality?

 

config.getKeys(false)

 

Considering no "world.places" was specified in that call, what keys is that going to return me?

Aye, a search of config.getkeys on google revealed this post which shows I need to use config.getConfigurationSection("Blocks").getKeys(false);

Actually, Im getting a null pointer exception from this line

Code:

for (String s : config.getConfigurationSection("world.places").getKeys(false))

event though my config.yml looks like

Code:

player:
  foodDoesntGoDown: true
  customChat: false
world:
  places:
    Something1:
    Something2:

I resolved this, seems that you need to specify a value too or it doesn't detect it

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

 

use an list if you dont whant values

 

Well, I made it so it auto generates lots of sub-properties for each of the children of world.places so when I gave it a value of '' and ran it it replaced it with all the stuff i specified! Seems easy enough