Solved Help needed sending message to specific players!

Hello,
I am making a plugin which sends message to all online staff members on running a command, and all the online staff members can respond to them by running another command. My problem is I don't know how to get the list of staff members online and make the message so that it only is sent to the staff online. Also, how to do that any staff online can reply to that message such that only the player who sent the message recieves it.

 

You should do what @timtower recommended for the first part of your question, (loop)
As for the second part, you need to log which players received the message and if any of them type /reply <whatever> you should trace the player assigned (the one who sent the message initially) that can be done through a Map of various other methods. For more ideas on this check out how /msg command works in other plugins and furthermore how the reply command works.

 

Thanks a lot @timtower and @mine-care.

@mine-care, Could you explain on how I could log which player sent the message?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

@CrazyYoungBro I don't really know much about your code and your implementation so i can't directly recomend a way but i can say that you need to find a suitable datastructure depending on the way you are implementing this, such as a Collection, an array or a Map

 

@mine-care
There is nothing implemented till now. I'm just figuring out how to make it work currently. I basically want a command which will allow normal users to chat with online staff. If there is any staff online, they cab respond to the message by running another command. I know how to make it work but not how to get the reply to be sent to the player who ran the command.

 

@timtower Whose playername?
I don't want to add staff playername, I want it to cycle through all staff members and find the online staff and send the message to them

 

There will be the staff member name in the reply part.

 

Yes will do but how?

I also need help on how to get list of all players online.

I want something like
if(x.hasPermission("permission")) {
x.sendMessage();
}
In this x is all the players online

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.