Adding Mysql Components

[ailanlana]

Right now it looks like the only storage method is YAML, will you consider adding Mysql support?

[EverNife]

Until today i have had no comission that required the PlayerData to be on a MySQL database.

Adding support for other types of storage is possible, but is not something easy to be done, mainly because most of my plugins does not have a relational-only strucutre.

If i had to create a support for mysql it would be necessary to store the PlayerData (mainly its PDSections) on a table as JSON.

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More important, what are you trying to do? Why do you need another type of storage here?

[ailanlana]

Since Minecraft can't be multithreaded and my server has a lot of mods, I had to resort to multiple zones to host more players.
Doing this requires me to synchronize data between zones, which requires a database such as mysql.

EverNifeCore is a great plugin, I rely on it for some of my current plugins, and it would be great to have database support.

[EverNife]

I have started the implementation of this feature. To be honest it's not easy and will take some time.

The PDSections must allow a few customizations, with scenarios like:

• Main PlayerData: Store on MySQL
• PDSection1 Store on MySQL
• PDSection2 Store on LocalOnly
• PDSection3 Store on MySQL
• PDSection4... etc

This will require PDSections to be registered individually with custom configurations to make them hotloaded as soon as EverNifeCore loads/reloads.

PlayerController.registerAutoLoadPDSection(
    instance,
    FEPlayerData.class
);

Also keep PDSections being able to store their data still using YamlSyntax, so, if we end up with a MySQL database it will be in tables of json values and with other NoSQL databases would still be easy to implement.

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The idea is still abstract in my mind on how to implement that, but it will eventually arrive.