Added GUIComponent.createTextComponent() method

Author: Sentropic

pom.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.sentropic.guiapi</groupId>
     <artifactId>GUI_API</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0</version>
+    <version>1.1-beta.0</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>GUI API</name>

src/main/java/com/sentropic/guiapi/GUIConfig.java

@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ public void reload() {
                                 Objects.requireNonNull(componentSection.getString("alignment")).toUpperCase());
                         boolean scale = componentSection.getBoolean("scale", true);
 
-                        TextComponent textComponent = new TextComponent(text);
-                        textComponent.setFont(font.getID());
+                        TextComponent textComponent = GUIComponent.createTextComponent(text, font.getID());
                         GUIComponent component;
                         if (width == -1) {
                             component = new GUIComponent(id, textComponent, font.getWidth(text, scale), offset, alignment);

src/main/java/com/sentropic/guiapi/gui/GUIComponent.java

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import net.md_5.bungee.api.chat.BaseComponent;
 import net.md_5.bungee.api.chat.TextComponent;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -149,4 +151,19 @@ public static int[] spacesFor(int width, int offset, Alignment alignment) {
     void onAdd(GUI gui) { }
 
     void onRemove(GUI gui) { }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a text component using the given text and font.
+     * Use inside the GUIComponent constructor to create it with a single statement.
+     * @param text the text contained by the TextComponent
+     * @param font the namespaced font ID to use for the text, as used in the resource pack
+     * @return a new TextComponent with the provided text and font
+     */
+    @NotNull
+    public static TextComponent createTextComponent(@Nullable String text, @Nullable String font) {
+        if (text == null) { text = ""; }
+        TextComponent textComponent = new TextComponent(text);
+        textComponent.setFont(font);
+        return textComponent;
+    }
 }

src/main/resources/plugin.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: GUIAPI
-version: 1.0
+version: 1.1-beta.0
 main: com.sentropic.guiapi.GUIAPI
 api-version: 1.16
 softdepend: [ProtocolLib]