Reading two of the same paths in a .yml file

Alright so I got an issue.

I am trying to read a .yml file. This.yml file looks like this:
http://imgur.com/a/EsepA
so I got this code to read the data from the first createObject:

Code:

public boolean read(String name, int act){
        if(getConfig().contains(name)){
            if(getConfig().contains(name + ".act" + act)){
                //===============================================================//
                //TEST FOR METHOD CREATEOBJECT AND GET REQUIREMENTS
                //===============================================================//
                if(getConfig().contains(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject")){
                    ArrayList<ItemStack> equipment = new ArrayList<ItemStack>();
                    Location loc = null;
                    String ename = null;
                  
                    if(getConfig().contains(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.equipment")){
                        String s = getConfig().getString(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.equipment");
                        String[] t = s.split(",");
                        for(String part : t){
                            Material m = Material.getMaterial(part);
                            equipment.add(new ItemStack(m,1));
                        }
                    }
                    if(getConfig().contains(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.location")){
                        String s = getConfig().getString(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.location");
                        String[] t = s.split(",");
                      
                        String world = t[0];
                        if(isNumeric(t[1]) && isNumeric(t[2]) && isNumeric(t[3])){
                        int x = Integer.parseInt(t[1]);
                        int y = Integer.parseInt(t[2]);
                        int z = Integer.parseInt(t[3]);
                      
                        loc = new Location(Bukkit.getWorld(world),x,y,z);
                      
                        }else{
                            return false;
                        }
                           
                    }else{
                        return false;
                    }
                    if(getConfig().contains(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.name")){
                        ename = getConfig().getString(name + ".act" + act + ".createObject.name");
                    }else{
                        return false;
                    }
                  
                    createObject(loc,ename,equipment);
                  
                }
            }else{
                return false;
            }
        }else{
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    }

but now I also want to read the second and do the same with it. How would I go about doing that?
Thanks!

 

@CraterHater
You will have to create a YAML array, similar to the JSON object-array notation without the brackets.

Say I want to have a YAML file contain a list of contracts and I want to translate those contracts to the following class to use in my application:

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Code:java

 
public class Contract {
 
    private final String name;
 
    private final String caseOf;
 
    private final Date date;
 
    public Contract(String name, String caseOf, long timestamp) {
        this.name = name;
        this.caseOf = caseOf;
 
        this.date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
    }
 
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
 
    public String getCaseOf() {
        return caseOf;
    }
 
    public Date getDate() {
        return date;
    }
 
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return String.format("Contract by %s concerning the case %s on %s",
                            name,
                            caseOf,
                            date.toLocaleString());
    }
}
 

A contract always has the same keyvalue pairs. To save an object-array in YAML, you should to store all contracts in SETS. The YAML file would look like this:

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Code:yaml

 
contracts:
  - case: ABC
    name: John Doe
    timestamp: 1483106575
    timezone: UTC
  - case: DEF
    name: Doe John
    timestamp: 1477905300
    timezone: UTC
 

Now to load such set into a list of usable objects it takes a lot of type checking to make sure the objects in the array are correctly set. Here is an example of how to parse the contracts set of the YAML file into a list of Contract objects:

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Code:java

 
Object ymlContracts = ...;
System.out.printf("contracts => class instance of: %s", ymlContracts.getClass().getSimpleName());
 
List<Contract> contracts = new ArrayList<>();
if (ymlContracts instanceof List<?>) {
    for (Object contract : (List<?>) ymlContracts) {
        System.out.printf("contract => class instance of: %s", contract.getClass().getSimpleName());
 
        if (contract instanceof Map<?, ?>) {
            Map<?, ?> map = (Map<?, ?>) contract;
            System.out.printf("map => content: %s", map.toString());
 
            if (map.containsKey("name") &&
                map.containsKey("case") &&
                map.containsKey("timezone")) {
                // now we can establish a contract object
 
                try {
                    String name = map.get("name").toString();
                    String caseOf = map.get("case").toString();
                    Integer timestamp = (int)map.get("timestamp");
 
                    // String timezone = map.get("timezone").toString(); -- lets not parse the timezone
 
                    contracts.add(new Contract(name, caseOf, timestamp.longValue()));
                } catch(Exception ex) { // InvalidCastException is for C#, don't know what to set here for Java
                    // invalid cast, some fields are not what they suppose to be
                    System.err.println("invalid cast");
                    System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
 
for (Contract contract : contracts) {
    System.out.println(contract);
}
 

The following should print:

Code:

[15:55:01 INFO]: Contract by John Doe concerning the case ABC on 30-dec-2016 15:02:55
[15:55:01 INFO]: Contract by Doe John concerning the case DEF on 31-okt-2016 10:15:00

 

@ShaneCraftDev
Thanks for your response!

But what if case: "ABC" and case: "DEF" are similar. If they are both named "ABC" by the user. My .yml file will be edited by the user and in most cases, this will be how it is ^

 

@CraterHater
How would that be an issue? case is the key and ABC | DEF is the value. Nothing has to be unique here, duplicates can exist. Instead of an object with unique keys, you now have an object-array. Thus being able to have the same keys in each object of the array.