[SOLVED] Serializable Locations.

I know that they aren't serializable but what can I use to replace them ?

 

You can replace them with either your primitives or your own ConfigurationSerializable proxy for location.

 

Is saving only the x, y ,z and the world in a file an option?
Then you could create a location again from those values....

 

I use my own class for this.

Code:

public class TinyLocation implements ConfigurationSerializable {
 
    private final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String world;
    private double x;
    private double y;
    private double z;
 
    public TinyLocation(World world, Double x, Double y, Double z) {
        this.world = world.getName();
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
        this.z = z;
    }
 
    public TinyLocation(Location location) {
        this.world = location.getWorld().getName();
        this.x = location.getX();
        this.y = location.getY();
        this.z = location.getZ();
    }
    
    public TinyLocation(ConfigurationSection map) {
        this.world = map.getString("world");
        this.x = map.getDouble("x");
        this.y = map.getDouble("y");
        this.z = map.getDouble("z");                
    }
 
    public Location toLocation() {
        Location l = new Location(Bukkit.getWorld(world), x, y, z);
        return l;
    }
 
    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> serialize() {
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 
        map.put("world", world);
        map.put("x", x);
        map.put("y", y);
        map.put("z", z);
 
        return map;
    }
 
    public static TinyLocation deserialize(Map<String, Object> map) {
        Configuration conf = new MemoryConfiguration();
        for (Entry<String, Object> e : map.entrySet()) {
            conf.set(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
        }
        return new TinyLocation(conf);
    }
}

 

I'd recommend using my Sync plugin which has a serializable location class 'SyncLocation'.

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/sync/

 

Maybe I will. But will the servers owners have to put sync in their plugin folder as well?
EDIT: Seems like they do
EDIT: How would make the object a HashMap.

HashMap<String, Location> Is what i'm trying to do. Btw too many hashmaps just means more lag ;p

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

 

You want to use a Sync Location. This can be easily created by just passing a Bukkit Location into the constructor like so.

Code:java

 
Location bukkitLoc;
SyncLocation syncLoc = new SyncLocation(bukkitLoc);
 

 

Edit: solved