Solved Entity Selectors

So, I have a command where the user should be able to target an entity or multiple entities using an entity selector (like @e or @p).
Those entities don't have to be players, but they of course can be.
So does anyone have a good way for turning that into an Entity[] array?
I already searched myself and didn't find anything and now I don't know if that doesn't work or I just didn't find it.

 

Get a Collection of entities and call toArray(/*array here*/) on it.

 

@teej107
Ok but what sort of collection? All entities on the server?
From what you said I guess you mean a collection of all entities that match the entity selector but how should I get that?

 

@Zimboni There is a method in World to get all the entities. It returns a List I think so it would be a List, that type of Collection.

 

@teej107
I'm still not so familiar with collection and list stuff in Java so could you send me a code for a method which takes an entity selector (String) as an argument and returns an array of entities?

 

https://jd.bukkit.org/org/bukkit/World.html#getEntities()

 

Ok, so with that and the getPlayers() method I can cover the @e and @a selector, now how do I do @p and @r or more advanced stuff like @e[type=ArmorStand,name=SomeArmorStand,r=20]

 

@Zimboni @p just get the nearest player. Just loop through all the players in the world and compare their distances from yours. @r just gets a random entity. For the arguments inside the brackets, you'll need to parse it and then you should be able to pretty much figure it out.

 

@teej107 Ok thanks