Configuration API - Exposing internal values

[IllusionTheDev]

Feature description

I am requesting a getValues method in the Configuration class. This method would return a defensive copy of the internal map.

Goal of the feature

This method exists in Spigot's ConfigurationSection class, and is beneficial for multi-platform code, as well as configuration parsing in some cases.

Unfitting alternatives

The only other alternative is to get all the keys, iterate through them and call Configuration#get, which is more computationally expensive.

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[md-5]

From memory the bungee API is lazy compared to the spigot one so the internal map isn't quite comparable.

What specifically are you trying to achieve?

[IllusionTheDev]

My end goal is to have a map-based configuration API similar to bungee's, that works across all platforms.

My current implementation looks like this, with an adapter for Bukkit and an adapter for bungee

Looking at the code, I believe the implementation should return a mix of the self map and the defaults.

[Janmm14]

I would not suggest to use this coding style. You mix configuration details (like path strings and default values) into every other part of your plugin.

[IllusionTheDev]

I would not suggest to use this coding style. You mix configuration details (like path strings and default values) into every other part of your plugin.

The objective of this system is to provide a consistent configuration experience in certain aspects across all platforms (Think of database configs). Platform-specific configs have their own unique paths and files