Get nearby entities

I know that you can get nearby entities from an explosion, but is there a way to do the same thing, given a location? Thanks!

Like this

world.getNearbyEntities(x, y, z);

 

You could get a location and do .getChunk().getEntities() which will return an array of Entities

 

Mother__
Spawn an invisible bat at the location and check the entities. Then remove the bat.

 

^^That's not the best solution.
Here is a method i'm using that returns an arraylist of entites:

Code:java

public static Entity[]  getNearbyEntities(Location l, int radius){
        int chunkRadius = radius < 16 ? 1 : (radius - (radius % 16))/16;
        HashSet<Entity> radiusEntities = new HashSet<Entity>();
            for (int chX = 0 -chunkRadius; chX <= chunkRadius; chX ++){
                for (int chZ = 0 -chunkRadius; chZ <= chunkRadius; chZ++){
                    int x=(int) l.getX(),y=(int) l.getY(),z=(int) l.getZ();
                    for (Entity e : new Location(l.getWorld(),x+(chX*16),y,z+(chZ*16)).getChunk().getEntities()){
                        if (e.getLocation().distance(l) <= radius && e.getLocation().getBlock() != l.getBlock()) radiusEntities.add(e);
                    }
                }
            }
        return radiusEntities.toArray(new Entity[radiusEntities.size()]);
    }

 

you could just itorate through the servers entitys and check "location.distance(entlocation) < distance"