Hey guys, I have a custom object that has the 'ConfigurationSerializable' interface implemented. Now it works perfectly fine with serializing but the problem comes when I try to deserialize, here's my issue: Also take a look at the comments I made, it explains the rest a bit more in detail Thanks in advance! Code (Java): public final class MyCustomObject implements ConfigurationSerializable { private final UUID id; private final Location location; // just a ConfigurationSerializable object... public MyCustomObject(Location location) { this.id = UUID.randomUUID(); this.location = location; } public Location getLocation() { return location; } public UUID getId() { return id; } @Override public Map<String, Object> serialize() { return new HashMap<>(); // no need to work this out, it works fine. } public static MyCustomObject deserialize(Map<String, Object> map){ UUID id = UUID.fromString((String) map.get("id")); // how do I fetch a location here, since the location is stored as a // serializable to my configuration file. I also can't access the configuration // file from this method and there is no way I could possibly think of to make // that happen, so how do I solve this? :-) return null; // just so that my IDE doesn't give me errors ;-) } } EDIT 1: I just realized that I am storing a HashMap inside a HashMap in my particular object and that it could be possible to use the Map#get() method and cast a Map to the result and use this to get my result, this post might be unnecassary and I'll close it as soon as possible once I found the solution . Any further replies are very welcome! EDIT 2: Decided to read the Javadoc for the second time and saw that I forgot to register my ConfigurationSerializable class. After doing so my error was gone