Messages can be a string or array

Author: HerrMagiic

Diff for: CustomCommands/Commands.example.json

@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
   {
     "Title": "Enable Surf",
     "Command": "surf",
-    "Message": "Surf is now enabled",
+    "Message": [
+      "Surf is now:",
+      "{GREEN}Enabled"
+    ],
     "PrintTo": 0,
     "Description": "Command for Surf gamemode",
     "ServerCommands": [

Diff for: CustomCommands/Functions.cs

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Core;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Modules.Admin;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Modules.Cvars;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Modules.Entities;
-using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Modules.Entities.Constants;
 using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Modules.Utils;
 using CustomCommands.Model;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
-using Serilog;
-
 namespace CustomCommands;
 public partial class CustomCommands
 {
@@ -105,14 +104,14 @@ private bool RequiresPermissions(CCSPlayerController player, Permission permissi
                 if (AdminManager.PlayerHasPermissions(player, new string[]{permission})) 
                     return true;
             }
-            PrintToChat(Receiver.Client, player, "You don't have the required permissions to execute this command");
+            player.PrintToChat($"{PrefixCache}You don't have the required permissions to execute this command");
             return false;
         }
         else
         {
             if (!AdminManager.PlayerHasPermissions(player, permissions.PermissionList.ToArray()))
             {
-                PrintToChat(Receiver.Client, player, "You don't have the required permissions to execute this command");
+                player.PrintToChat($"{PrefixCache}You don't have the required permissions to execute this command");
                 return false;
             }
             return true;
@@ -160,9 +159,51 @@ private void TriggerMessage(CCSPlayerController player, Commands cmd)
                 break;
         }
     }
-    private string[] WrappedLine(string input)
+    private string[] WrappedLine(dynamic input)
     {
-        return input.Split(new[] { "\r\n", "\r", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
+        List<string> output = new List<string>();
+
+        if (input is JsonElement jsonElement)
+        {
+            switch (jsonElement.ValueKind)
+            {
+                case JsonValueKind.String:
+                    string result = jsonElement.GetString()!;
+                    return result?.Split(new[] { "\r\n", "\r", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None) ?? Array.Empty<string>();
+
+                case JsonValueKind.Array:
+                    foreach (var arrayElement in jsonElement.EnumerateArray())
+                    {
+                        string[] lines = arrayElement.GetString()?.Split(new[] { "\r\n", "\r", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None) ?? Array.Empty<string>();
+                        output.AddRange(lines);
+                    }
+                    break;
+
+                default:
+                    Logger.LogError($"{Config.LogPrefix} Message is not a string or array");
+                    return Array.Empty<string>();
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            Logger.LogError($"{Config.LogPrefix} Invalid input type");
+            return Array.Empty<string>();
+        }
+
+        return output.ToArray();
+    }
+
+    private string[] ReplaceTags(string[] input, CCSPlayerController player)
+    {
+        string[] output = new string[input.Length];
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
+        {
+            output[i] = ReplaceMessageTags(input[i], player);
+            output[i] = ReplaceColorTags(output[i]);
+        }
+
+        return output;
     }
 
     private string ReplaceMessageTags(string input, CCSPlayerController player)

Diff for: CustomCommands/Model/CommandsConfig.cs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ public class Commands
     public required string Title { get; set; } = "";
     public string Description { get; set; } = "Description";
     public required string Command { get; set; } = "testtesttest";
-    public string Message { get; set; } = "";
+    public dynamic Message { get; set; } = "";
     public CenterElement CenterMessage { get; set; } = new();
     public required Sender PrintTo { get; set; } = Sender.ClientChat;
     public List<string> ServerCommands { get; set; } = new();
@@ -32,4 +32,3 @@ public enum Sender
     AllChatClientCenter = 6,
     AllChatAllCenter = 7
 }
-

Diff for: CustomCommands/PrintFunctions.cs

@@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ private void PrintToChatAndAllCenter(Receiver receiver, CCSPlayerController play
         PrintToAllCenter(cmd);
     }
 
-    private void PrintToChat(Receiver printToChat, CCSPlayerController player, string message)
+    private void PrintToChat(Receiver printToChat, CCSPlayerController player, dynamic message)
     {
-        string replaceTags = ReplaceMessageTags(message, player);
-        string replaceColorTags = ReplaceColorTags(replaceTags);
-        string[] msg = WrappedLine(replaceColorTags);
+        string[] msg = WrappedLine(message);
+        msg = ReplaceTags(msg, player);
 
         switch (printToChat)
         {

Diff for: Examples/NewLines.json

@@ -12,5 +12,23 @@
         "Command": "numbers",
         "Message": "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\r\n10", // \n or \r is a new line
         "PrintTo": 0
+    },
+    {
+        "Title": "Numbers",
+        "Description": "From one to ten with arrays as new lines",
+        "Command": "numbers2",
+        "Message": [ // If you want to use arrays as new lines, do this
+            "1",
+            "2",
+            "3",
+            "4",
+            "5",
+            "6",
+            "7",
+            "8",
+            "9",
+            "10"
+        ],
+        "PrintTo": 0
     }
 ]