File Manager is a plugin adding new procedure blocks allowing you to create and read your files!
File Types
- JSON
- TXT (simple file reader/writer)
- ZIP (5.7+)
Important Information
- This version supports Forge 1.19.4 and 1.20.1 and Fabric 1.20.1
The 2 following examples require File Manager 5.0 or after.
Create a JSON file
Read a JSON file
I made a tutorial covering this here.
Credits/License
Tutorial on sub-JSON objects by NorthWestTrees
Icon by Tobi-Wan#0482
Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
- Appropriate credit must be provided to the creators and maintainers of this plugin.
- Forked versions of this plugin must be distributed under the same license as this with attribution if distributed.
- Changes must be stated if any modified works are to be distributed.
- Under no circumstances you can state that the original creator endorses modified works.
Changelog
To see a complete changelog of the plugin, check this file.
5.10
* [#48] Add a new parameter to write lines at the end of TXT files
* Note: Existing workspaces will get a build error due to the missing parameter. Previous behaviour was FALSE.
* [Bugfix #62] Write Json object caused a build error due to a missing import (again)5.9.1
* [Bugfix #61] Some procedure blocks could cause build errors due to a missing import
* Added Persian language support5.9
* Updated to MCreator 2024.1.15713
* Added support for NeoForge 1.20.4Comments
Hello
im only able to create files with File Manager but if i try write things in the files i get a silent error with
https://pastebin.com/reAnj4Hb
If i do it like your example picture in the plugin description it wont work.
if i remove the write part it works.
it wont generate or change the code of the class with the write parts.
Already tested the latest build of file manager and one version lower too and also installed all snapshots of mcreator for 1.16.5 to test it with all versions.
Also builded the file manager with gradle on my own to test if uploaded version is maybe broken but nothing help.
Same error everytime.
What im doing wrong xD
Yes that is the case. There isn't a SET option for FileManager variables so the only way I found was to unlock the code for the procedure and update: File myFile = new File("serverbasicsconfig.json");
with the actual name. This sets the filename before checking if it exists or not. Not ideal, but a workaround for now. Just have to check it in/out again when making changes to that procedure which is a pain initially.
Okay, we are wrong tho. There is a block to set file variable, just it's name is kinda misleading.
This block is "Create the file with name located at directory".
It creates a variable File and puts the directory into it.
When u used read blocks in procedure it checks if file exists in the directory and if it doesn't exist, it creates it. If it exists it does nothing, you have full access to info inside it.
I ran into the same issue and couldn't find any way to set the variable so that the file not found message would go away. I used a variable for the filename (in the example above and my use case). Details are in Issue-11 on Github. In short, I got the logic to read/write working be editing the code to explicitly set myFile variable in java: File myFile = new File("serverconfig.json");
Once I had that done first, then everything worked fine after that. I tried using a global variable to set the value but there wasn't any option in File Manager to use an element that allows setting of a variable's value.
Minecraft doesn't include a YAML library, so I can't implement it because I don't want to use an external thing for the plugin. However, Forge includes a TOML library so I will try to add support for them. :)