Tutorial Properly write variables from config!

What If I told you sender.sendMessage(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&',plugin.getConfig.getString("Message")) could be shortened to sender.sendMessage(message), without having to worry about rewriting on reload??
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Well, that's what this tutorial is for. It's pretty simple.

Instead of using

Code:java

 
String mesage = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&',plugin.getConfig.getString("Message");
 

We just use

Code:java

 
String message() {
plugin.reloadConfig();
return ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&',plugin.getConfig.getString("Message");
}
 

What this does is reload and save the config then return the string.

 

@TheEnderCrafter9
Nice tutorial, though you don't actually shorten anything. All you're doing is inventing a way to make sure the message is "up to date" and shuffling around code.

 

@TheEnderCrafter9 So you want to edit the config EVERY time you want to send a coloured message?!?! Or am I missing something? I prefer my methods of shortening and I rarely even use that. I don't see what people's issue is with just doing ChatColor.COLOR sometimes.

sender.sendMessage(color("&cThis is a message"));

Code:

public String color(String s) {
    return ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', s);
}

 

Also why do save then reload? That will just delete changes then load already known and up to date config. Either do one on another.

 

I use both methods, mostly beacuse of the quality of the my code. :')
Meh why not actually ur right, reloading is not mandatory. I was typing this at 12:15 @ night, so I can say I didn't stay up three days working on this tutorial.

I don't know why I did the reload trust me I check my code after i find it faulty mostly from the help of others.

EDIT by Moderator: Looks like someone screwed up again.