From 119930b26fb1052eacfee3487ca31c802963008d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stonar96 <minecraft.stonar96@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:49:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a clear method

---
 pom.xml                                       |  2 +-
 .../utils/configuration/Configuration.java    | 34 ++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1dd2ded..a474a32 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.vanillage.utils.configuration</groupId>
   <artifactId>configuration</artifactId>
-  <version>1.1</version>
+  <version>1.2</version>
   <name>Configuration</name>
   <description>A Java configuration API with an implementation for parsing data from XML-based configuration files to a (Map) memory structure.</description>
   <build>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/vanillage/utils/configuration/Configuration.java b/src/main/java/com/vanillage/utils/configuration/Configuration.java
index 96138ed..dca8c51 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/vanillage/utils/configuration/Configuration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/vanillage/utils/configuration/Configuration.java
@@ -284,16 +284,42 @@ public Object set(Object value, Object... path) { // insert, set, create, constr
         }
     }
 
+    public Object clear(Object... path) { // delete, remove, reset, clear, erase
+        if (path == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("path cannot be null");
+        }
+
+        Map<?, ?> previous = null;
+        Object object = content;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < path.length; i++) {
+            if (object instanceof Map) {
+                previous = (Map<?, ?>) object;
+                object = previous.get(path[i]);
+            } else {
+                return NoValue.INSTANCE;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (object == null && (!configurationOptions.isNullTreatedAsValue() || previous != null && !previous.containsKey(path[path.length - 1]))) {
+            object = NoValue.INSTANCE;
+        }
+
+        if (previous == null) { // can be merged with the if statement above
+            content = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+        } else {
+            previous.remove(path[path.length - 1]); // not necessary if previous doesn't contain the path
+        }
+
+        return object;
+    }
+
     /*public boolean exists(Object... path) { // exists, contains, isSet
         return false;
     }
 
     public Object insertIfAbsent(Object value, Object... path) { // insert, set, create, construct, add, put
         return null;
-    }
-
-    public Object delete(Object... path) { // delete, remove, reset, clear, erase
-        return null;
     }*/
 
     public static enum NoValue {