switch / case request with boolean

Question

I'm trying to create a method which checks if the Login (username and password) has a minimum of 6 charakters.

To realize that I created this method public void checkLoginData(final String username, final String password). In that method, I create to booleans (user and pass), with those I can create 4 different boolean-chains:

• user: true pass: true
• user: false pass: true
• user: false pass: false
• user: true pass: false

Now I'd like to do a switch/case request for each of them, but I don't get how to realize that...

If you ask why I need the switch, I just think I need it, because I'd like to do for every of those 4 boolean-chains, that it does/show something diffrent. Also I'd like to do this in a sexy-java-way not with tousands of diffrent 'ifs' :P, Please help!

Here's the code of the method:

public void checkLoginData(final String username, final String password){

    boolean user, pass;

    if (username.length() < 6){
        user = false;
    }else {
        user = true;
    }

    if (password.length() < 6){
        pass = false;
    }else {
        pass = true;
    }

    boolean[] logindaten = {user, pass};



}

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Thx for the help in Advance!

Best Regards safari

Answer 1

If you really want a "sexy-java-way" (but that depends what you understand as such) you can do something like (Java 7 required):

boolean user, pass;

switch (user + "-" + pass) {
    case "false-false":
        ...
    case "false-true":
        ...
    case "true-false":
        ...
    case "true-true":
        ...
    default:
        throw new RuntimeException(
            "something strange happening here, user: " + user + ",pass: " + pass);
}

but I would prefer to do just 2 distinct checks each with his owns message, the message being joined for presentation. (and not sure if that could be considered "sexy-java-way", more like a 'workaround')