Genericise configurations

This is a breaking change. Enables easy creation of config files without copy/pasting the Read/Write code all the time

TShockAPI/Configuration/IConfigFile.cs

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+namespace TShockAPI.Configuration
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Describes a generic configuration interface wrapping some settings
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <typeparam name="TSettings"></typeparam>
+	public interface IConfigFile<TSettings>
+	{
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Settings managed by this config file
+		/// </summary>
+		TSettings Settings { get; set; }
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Reads settings from a given path
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="path">The path to the file containing the settings</param>
+		/// <param name="incompleteSettings">
+		/// Whether the settings object has any new fields in it, meaning that the configuration should be
+		/// overwritten.
+		/// </param>
+		/// <returns>Settings object</returns>
+		TSettings Read(string path, out bool incompleteSettings);
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Reads settings from a given stream
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="stream">The stream containing the settings</param>
+		/// <param name="incompleteSettings">
+		/// Whether the settings object has any new fields in it, meaning that the configuration should be
+		/// overwritten.
+		/// </param>
+		/// <returns>Settings object</returns>
+		TSettings Read(System.IO.Stream stream, out bool incompleteSettings);
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Converts a json-formatted string into the settings object used by this configuration
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="json">Json string to parse</param>
+		/// <param name="incompleteSettings">Whether or not the json string contained an incomplete set of settings</param>
+		/// <returns>Settings object</returns>
+		TSettings ConvertJson(string json, out bool incompleteSettings);
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Writes this configuration to a given path
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="path">File location the configuration will be written to</param>
+		void Write(string path);
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Writes this configuration to a stream
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="stream">Stream the configuration will be written to</param>
+		void Write(System.IO.Stream stream);
+
+	}
+}