Saving the inventory of a enderchest in a config file.

Hello,

I am now working on a plugin in which you get a bigger enderchest.
The only thing that i need to do is saving the inventory to a config file

Does anyone know how to do this? on the internet I don't get instant answers.

Thanks in advance!

-theminer199

 

You can't save inventories directly into the config.yml but you can first turn them into ItemStack[] using

and turn them back using

Here's some code to save and load the ItemStack lists:

Code:java

        public void saveInv(ItemStack[] itemstackList, String inventoryName) {
            //Runs thru every item in the list
            for (int i = 0; i < itemstackList.length; i++) {
                //Saves the itemstack
                getConfig().set("Inventory"+"."+inventoryName+"."+i, itemstackList[i]);
            }
            //Saves the config
            this.saveConfig();
        }
 
        public ItemStack[] loadInv(String inventoryName) {
            //Creates a blank list
            List<ItemStack> itemstackList = new ArrayList<ItemStack>();
            //Preparing
            boolean done = false;
            //Starts the counting
            int i = -1;
            while (done == false) {
                i++;
                //Checks if the config contains that slot
                if (getConfig().contains("Inventory"+"."+inventoryName+"."+i)) {
                    //Adds the itemstack to the list
                    itemstackList.add(getConfig().getItemStack("Inventory"+"."+inventoryName+"."+i));
                } else {
                    //No more items, the list is complete
                    done = true;
                }
            }
            //Some converting and returning
            ItemStack[] toReturn = itemstackList.toArray(new ItemStack[itemstackList.size()]);
            return toReturn;
        }[/i]

 

Thanks!

But where do you place the

inventory.setContents(ItemStack[] itemstackList)

And the

inventory.getContents()??

 

Whereever you try to save/load the enderchest inventory

 

Okay, thanks alot for your help.

 

You're very welcome!

-If you don't need any more help, please mark this topic as SOLVED so other people with the same problem will find it faster

 

Im getting this error all the time!
Do you know how to fix it?

https://twitter.com/Patrickjeee/status/451740574807097344/photo/1

 

You're getting things a bit mixed up here. When declarating a variable, you do something like this:

Meaning: I want to create a "String" called "str". From that moment on, Java will remember "str" is a "String" so you don't need to say it again.
Just replace it with:

and you'll be fine!

Please become God before telling others what to do!

Everybody makes mistakes in the beginning! It's nice he wants to do it with a fun thing like Minecraft!

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

 

2MBKindiegames Excuse me, but I though knowing how to program properly was a perquisite for constructing complicated third-party server plugins from scratch.

 

Maurdekye You've got to start somewhere. Learning while working on something is the best way to do so!

 

2MBKindiegames I agree. But Bukkit is not a good place to start, I can tell you that from experience; both my own, and from others on this forum.

 

Maurdekye I have a friend who didn't know Java at all. He learned programming with writing Bukkit Plugins. Now, 6 months later, he sometimes surpasses me in Bukkit Knowledge.

 

2MBKindiegames Did said friend know any programming language beforehand?

It's easy to adapt from one to another, but variable declaration is kind of... Basics of the basic.

 

Zethariel Maurdekye
We're kinda diverting of this thread's original topic. But this conversation does interest me so I've continued here:
http://forums.bukkit.org/conversations/learning-to-code-using-bukkit.76803/

Anyone's welcome to join, so please keep this thead reserved to solving theminer199 's problem (if it isn't already)

 

@2MBKindiegames The problem isn't solved yet. I've started a conversation with you.

 

Same happened with me. I learned Java from writing Bukkit plugins and my background with C/C++.

 

theminer199
You can save the inventory like this;

Code:java

Player ply = /* player to save the enderchest of */;
getConfig().set("enderchests." + ply.getUniqueId(), ply.getEnderChest().getContents());

And you can load the enderchest inventory back with this;

Code:java

Player ply = /* player to get the enderchest for */;
ArrayList<ItemStack> conversion = new ArrayList<>();
for (Object o : getConfig().getList("enderchest." + ply.getUniqueId())) conversion.add((ItemStack) o);
ply.getEnderChest().setContents(conversion.toArray(new ItemStack[conversion.size()]));

Not sure what you'd want to do with this, as enderchest inventories save over reloads, but hey.

 

coasterman10 Hi, this topic was moved to a seperate conversation! You might care to join in: http://forums.bukkit.org/conversations/learning-to-code-using-bukkit.76803/