Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

Reading and storing the configured values

Once your configuration file is loaded, you must be able to access the file and read the values that are set. The JavaPlugin class, which is extended by the main class, has a getConfig method, which returns FileConfiguration. This FileConfiguration class is what we will use to get the values that we are looking for. You will see that the FileConfiguration class has methods such as getInt, getDouble, getString, and getBoolean; all of these methods take a string as a parameter. The string parameter is the path to the value. To fully understand the path, we need to look at a YAML configuration that contains nested keys. An example of this is the plugin.yml file that we were just working with. If we want to ...