Is there a more intelligent way to do this besides a long chain of if statements or switch?
- by Harrison Nguyen
I'm implementing an IRC bot that receives a message and I'm checking that message to determine which functions to call. Is there a more clever way of doing this? It seems like it'd quickly get out of hand after I got up to like 20 commands.
Perhaps there's a better way to abstract this?
public void onMessage(String channel, String sender, String login, String hostname, String message){
if (message.equalsIgnoreCase(".np")){
// TODO: Use Last.fm API to find the now playing
} else if (message.toLowerCase().startsWith(".register")) {
cmd.registerLastNick(channel, sender, message);
} else if (message.toLowerCase().startsWith("give us a countdown")) {
cmd.countdown(channel, message);
} else if (message.toLowerCase().startsWith("remember am routine")) {
cmd.updateAmRoutine(channel, message, sender);
}
}
