Auto sort permissions on load to speed up population of superperms.

Negating a parent node after adding all nodes with * will now
correctly remove all child nodes of that parent before populating
superperms.
	  eg.
	      - '*'
	      - -vanish.*
	      - vanish.standard

EssentialsGroupManager/src/Changelog.txt

@@ -125,4 +125,10 @@ v 1.9:
 	- Fixed an infinite loop error when using '/manudel' on a logged in player. It caused setDefaultGroup to trigger a bukkit update when no GM User existed yet.
 	- do not allow inherited permissions to negate higher perms.
 	- Fixed a bug when pushing superperms in the wrong order.
-	- Fix players retaining permissions when demoted.
+	- Fix players retaining permissions when demoted.
+	- Auto sort permissions on load to speed up population of superperms.
+	- Negating a parent node after adding all nodes with * will now correctly remove all child nodes of that parent before populating superperms.
+	  eg.
+	      - '*'
+	      - -vanish.*
+	      - vanish.standard

EssentialsGroupManager/src/org/anjocaido/groupmanager/dataholder/WorldDataHolder.java

@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ public class WorldDataHolder {
                 Map<String, Object> thisGroupNode = (Map<String, Object>) allGroupsNode.get(groupKey);
                 Group thisGrp = ph.createGroup(groupKey);
                 if (thisGrp == null) {
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("I think this user was declared more than once: " + groupKey + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("I think this Group was declared more than once: " + groupKey + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
                 }
                 if (thisGroupNode.get("default") == null) {
                     thisGroupNode.put("default", false);
@@ -467,20 +467,22 @@ public class WorldDataHolder {
                 //PERMISSIONS NODE
                 if (thisGroupNode.get("permissions") == null) {
                     thisGroupNode.put("permissions", new ArrayList<String>());
-                }
-                if (thisGroupNode.get("permissions") instanceof List) {
-                    for (Object o : ((List) thisGroupNode.get("permissions"))) {
-                    	try {
-                    		thisGrp.addPermission(o.toString());
-                    	} catch (NullPointerException e) {
-                    		// Ignore this entry as it's null.
-                    		//throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid permission node in group:  " + thisGrp.getName() + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
-                    	}
-                    }
-                } else if (thisGroupNode.get("permissions") instanceof String) {
-                    thisGrp.addPermission((String) thisGroupNode.get("permissions"));
                 } else {
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type of permissions node(Should be String or List<String>) for group:  " + thisGrp.getName() + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
+	                if (thisGroupNode.get("permissions") instanceof List) {
+	                    for (Object o : ((List) thisGroupNode.get("permissions"))) {
+	                    	try {
+	                    		thisGrp.addPermission(o.toString());
+	                    	} catch (NullPointerException e) {
+	                    		// Ignore this entry as it's null.
+	                    		//throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid permission node in group:  " + thisGrp.getName() + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
+	                    	}
+	                    }
+	                } else if (thisGroupNode.get("permissions") instanceof String) {
+	                    thisGrp.addPermission((String) thisGroupNode.get("permissions"));
+	                } else {
+	                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type of permissions node(Should be String or List<String>) for group:  " + thisGrp.getName() + " in file: " + groupsFile.getPath());
+	                }
+	                thisGrp.sortPermissions();
                 }
 
                 //INFO NODE
@@ -581,18 +583,20 @@ public class WorldDataHolder {
 	            }
 	            if (thisUserNode.get("permissions") == null) {
 	                thisUserNode.put("permissions", new ArrayList<String>());
-	            }
-	            if (thisUserNode.get("permissions") instanceof List) {
-	                for (Object o : ((List) thisUserNode.get("permissions"))) {
-	                    thisUser.addPermission(o.toString());
-	                }
-	            } else if (thisUserNode.get("permissions") instanceof String) {
-	            	try {
-	                	thisUser.addPermission(thisUserNode.get("permissions").toString());
-	            	} catch (NullPointerException e) {
-	            		// Ignore this entry as it's null.
-	            		//throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid permission node for user:  " + thisUser.getName() + " in file: " + UserFile.getPath());
-	            	}
+	            } else {
+		            if (thisUserNode.get("permissions") instanceof List) {
+		                for (Object o : ((List) thisUserNode.get("permissions"))) {
+		                    thisUser.addPermission(o.toString());
+		                }
+		            } else if (thisUserNode.get("permissions") instanceof String) {
+		            	try {
+		                	thisUser.addPermission(thisUserNode.get("permissions").toString());
+		            	} catch (NullPointerException e) {
+		            		// Ignore this entry as it's null.
+		            		//throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid permission node for user:  " + thisUser.getName() + " in file: " + UserFile.getPath());
+		            	}
+		            }
+		            thisUser.sortPermissions();
 	            }
 	
 	            //SUBGROUPS LOADING

EssentialsGroupManager/src/org/anjocaido/groupmanager/permissions/AnjoPermissionsHandler.java

@@ -153,15 +153,23 @@ public class AnjoPermissionsHandler extends PermissionsReaderInterface {
 	private Set<String> populatePerms (List<String>  perms, boolean includeChildren) {
 		
 		Set<String> permArray = new HashSet<String>();
+		Boolean allPerms = false;
 		
-		// Allow * node to populate ALL perms in Bukkit.
+		// Allow * node to populate ALL permissions to Bukkit.
 		if (perms.contains("*")) {
 			permArray.addAll(GroupManager.BukkitPermissions.getAllRegisteredPermissions(includeChildren));
+			allPerms = true;
 		}
 			
 		for (String perm : perms) {
 
 			if (!perm.equalsIgnoreCase("*")) {
+				
+				/**
+				 * all permission sets are passed here pre-sorted, alphabetically.
+				 * This means negated nodes will be processed before all permissions
+				 * other than *.
+				 */
 				boolean negated = false;
 				if (perm.startsWith("-"))
 					negated = true;
@@ -172,12 +180,17 @@ public class AnjoPermissionsHandler extends PermissionsReaderInterface {
 					if ((negated) && (permArray.contains(perm.substring(1))))
 						permArray.remove(perm.substring(1));
 	
-					if (includeChildren) {
+					/**
+					 * Process child nodes if required,
+					 * or this is a negated node AND we used * to include all permissions,
+					 * in which case we need to remove all children of that node.
+					 */
+					if ((includeChildren) || (negated && allPerms)) {
 	
 						Map<String, Boolean> children = GroupManager.BukkitPermissions.getAllChildren((negated ? perm.substring(1) : perm), new HashSet<String>());
 	
 						if (children != null) {
-							if (negated) {
+							if (negated || (negated && allPerms)) {
 	
 								// Remove children of negated nodes
 								for (String child : children.keySet())
@@ -185,7 +198,7 @@ public class AnjoPermissionsHandler extends PermissionsReaderInterface {
 										if (permArray.contains(child))
 											permArray.remove(child);
 	
-							} else {
+							} else if (!negated){
 	
 								// Add child nodes
 								for (String child : children.keySet())