From a8a37f055384b45fb2dfeaecd812d7cad6b3c923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dico <dico.karssiens@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 01:39:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Stuff added to helpers.py, forcefield updated to be a lot
 more efficient (simple change)

---
 forcefield.py |  3 +++
 helpers.py    | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/forcefield.py b/forcefield.py
index f35bfe4..354e9a6 100644
--- a/forcefield.py
+++ b/forcefield.py
@@ -144,7 +144,10 @@ def forcefield_header(player, message):
 
 @hook.event("player.PlayerMoveEvent")
 def on_move(event):
+  if not ff_users:
+    return
   player = event.getPlayer()
+  log(player)
   if is_creative(player):
     player_id = uid(player)
 
diff --git a/helpers.py b/helpers.py
index f34e403..356d18a 100644
--- a/helpers.py
+++ b/helpers.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import org.bukkit.Location as Location
 import org.bukkit.entity.Player as Player
 import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerTeleportEvent.TeleportCause as TeleportCause
 import org.bukkit.block as bblock
+import json
 
 
 shared = {} # this dict can be used to share stuff across modules
@@ -110,3 +111,20 @@ def uid(player):
 
 def retrieve_player(uid):
   return server.getOfflinePlayer(id_to_player(uid))
+
+
+def open_json_file(json_file):
+  try:
+    with open(json_file) as obj:
+      return json.loads(obj.read())
+  except Exception, reading_error:
+    error("Failed to read from %s: %s" % (json_file, str(reading_error)))
+
+
+def save_json_file(json_file, json_object): # json file is the path to the file, obj is the variable you want to write to the file.
+  global json_object
+  try:
+    with open(json_file) as obj:
+      obj.write(json.dumps(json_object))
+  except Exception, writing_error:
+    error("Failed to write to %s: %s" % (json_file, str(writing_error)))
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