DataUtils

DataUtils is a class designed to load and save all data from or to a file (e.g. PlayerIO is based on it) and is frankly just a wrapper for Google's gson project, adding some Minecraft-related type adapters.

Simple setup

Loading

Saving

In the most simple way you save your object by just calling DataUtils.saveData(Object obj, Type objType, String filename).
ObjType has to be the type of the object to save. If your object has no generics you can simply use your objects class, otherwise I recommend using new TypeToken<your object>(){}.getType(). The filename is a string that will be handed over to a java.io.File constructor. If the filename has no extension .json will be used as default.

Example:

List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<String>>(){}.getType();

// DataUtils.saveData(list, List.class, "testfile"); // WRONG - only use for objects without generics

DataUtils.saveData(list, listType, "testfile"); // CORRECT - will be saved to ./testfile.json

Adding your own TypeAdapters

If you want to save a class that can't be serialized (e.g. abstract classes) like a normal object (just fields) you have to write a TypeAdapter for it. You should inform yourself how to do that, here's a simple TypeAdapter:

public class UUIDTypeAdapter extends TypeAdapter<UUID> {
   @Override
   public void write(JsonWriter out, UUID value) throws IOException {
      out.value(value.toString() + " (" + Utils.orDefault(PlayerUtils.getName(value), "unknown") + ')');
   }

   @Override
   public UUID read(JsonReader in) throws IOException {
      return UUID.fromString(in.nextString().replaceFirst(" \\(.+\\)", "").replaceFirst("(\\w{8})(\\w{4})(\\w{4})(\\w{4})(\\w{12})", "$1-$2-$3-$4-$5"));
   }
}

To use this TypeAdapter in conjunction with DataUtils you can use DataUtils.with(Collections.singletonMap(UUID.class, new UUIDTypeAdapter()). This returns you a DataUtils instance with additionally registered UUIDTypeAdapter.  DataUtils.with acctepts a Map with the Type as key and either TypeAdapter or TypeAdapterFactory (Also all other type adapters gson is supporting).

For easy mapping of multiple type adapters you can use Utils.map(key, value, key, value, ...)