Fetching config as dictionary

Hi everyone,

My name is Dan-Levi, i have a lot of experience in several programming languages, but not c#.
My mission: I am making a very simple plugin that is going to save and load player userID and a bool to/form config file.

This is what i got so far:

Code:

        [ChatCommand("god")]
        void cmdGod(BasePlayer player)
        {
            if(!player.IsAdmin()) {
                NotAllowedAction(player);
            } else {
                godToggle = !godToggle;
                string state = (godToggle == true) ? "on" : "off" ;
                var data = new Dictionary<string,bool>();
                if(bulkitConfig["gods"] != null) {
                    data = bulkitConfig["gods"] as Dictionary<string, bool>;
                }
                data[player.userID.ToString()] = godToggle;
                bulkitConfig["gods"] = data;
                SendReply(player,"Godmode toggled "+state);
                SaveDataConfig();
            }
        }

When i have a clean config file it works, the data is saved as json into the file. But if i reload the plugin it seems like it have problems fetching the config and casting it to an dictionary.

What happens:
I clear the config file and alt tabs to the game. Typing /god in chat says godmode is toggled.
I then reload the plugin and try to type /god again. Im getting this error:

Code:

[Oxide] 7:19 AM [Error] Failed to call hook 'cmdGod' on plugin 'Bulkit' (NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object)
[Oxide] 7:19 AM [Debug]   at Oxide.Plugins.Bulkit.cmdGod (.BasePlayer player) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&)
  at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Any idea why this happens? Thanks in advance. And thanks for making Oxide happen.
[DOUBLEPOST=1428384255][/DOUBLEPOST]Further debugging shows that

Code:

var gods = bulkitConfig["gods"] as Dictionary<string,bool>;

returns null.
What am i missing out?
[DOUBLEPOST=1428391541,1428383930][/DOUBLEPOST]It turns out i had missunderstood what config actually returns. It returns Dictionary<string,object>.

I made a simple method that grabs it

Code:

Dictionary<string,object> GetBulkitConfig(string configStr)
        {
            var config = Interface.GetMod().DataFileSystem.GetDatafile("Bulkit_Config");
            return config[configStr] as Dictionary<string,object>;
        }

And use it like this

Code:

[ChatCommand("test")]
        void cmdTest(BasePlayer player)
        {
            LoadConfig();
            var gods = GetBulkitConfig("gods");
            Debug.Log(gods[player.userID.ToString()]);
        }

 

Code:

[ChatCommand("god")]
        void cmdGod(BasePlayer player)
        {
            if(!player.IsAdmin()) {
                NotAllowedAction(player);
            } else {
                godToggle = !godToggle;
                string state = (godToggle == true) ? "on" : "off" ;
                Dictionary<string,object>() data;
                if(bulkitConfig["gods"] != null) {
                    data = bulkitConfig["gods"] as Dictionary<string, object>;
                }
                data[player.userID.ToString()] = godToggle;
                bulkitConfig["gods"] = data;
                SendReply(player,"Godmode toggled "+state);
                SaveDataConfig();
            }
        }

maybe this would work?

 

Thanks Reneb, yes i figured it out but thank you anyway.
I have an idea of making some admin tools for Rust Experimental that is somewhat different to all the others.

 

as long as you don't make an all in one plugin ^^