Hi,

 

I'm building a simple permission manager for a friend. I'm pretty much learning everything as I go. What I'm trying to do right now is create a config file that lists the users, each user's group and the groups/permissions

 

I want the permissions to be readable so I was trying to replicate the PermissionsEx Bukkit plugin

 

e.g.

 

default:

    default: true

    permissions:

        vanilla.gamemode

 

 

so it's basically a key/value format.

 

[groupname: [default: true, permissions: [vanilla.gamemode, vanilla.help]]]

 

I'm not really sure how to do this using the Configuration class. Can someone help me with this?

I'm using 1.12

 

Thanks

For anybody who might look for the answer to this in the future, GSON is the solution

 

create a class for the object you want to make JSON

 

Class Groups{

  private String name;
  private boolean initial;
  private String[] permissions;
  
  public Group(String n, boolean init, String[] p) {
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
		name = n;
		initial = init;
		permissions = p;
				
	}

}

 

 

then in the syncConfig() method you do something like this:

 

		String[] perms = {"vanilla.help"};
    	String[] oPerms = {"*"};
    	Group def = new Group("default", true, perms);
    	Group owner = new Group("Owner", false, oPerms);
    	Gson g = new Gson();
    	String json1 = g.toJson(def);
    	String json2 = g.toJson(owner);
    	String[] groups = {json1, json2};

    	config.getStringList("Groups", "groups", groups, "Comment here");