Too many 'if' statements?

Question

The following code does work how I need it to, but it\'s ugly, excessive or a number of other things. I\'ve looked at formulas and attempted to write a few solutions, but I

Answer 1

1. Use constants or enums to make the code more readable
2. Try to split the code into more functions
3. Try to use the symmetry of the problem

Here is a suggestion how this could look like, but using an ints here is still kind of ugly:

static final int BLOCK_HIGH = 0;
static final int BLOCK_LOW = 1;
static final int ATTACK_HIGH = 2;
static final int ATTACK_LOW = 3;

public static int fightMath(int one, int two) {
    boolean player1Wins = handleAttack(one, two);
    boolean player2Wins = handleAttack(two, one);
    return encodeResult(player1Wins, player2Wins); 
}



private static boolean handleAttack(int one, int two) {
     return one == ATTACK_HIGH && two != BLOCK_HIGH
        || one == ATTACK_LOW && two != BLOCK_LOW
        || one == BLOCK_HIGH && two == ATTACK_HIGH
        || one == BLOCK_LOW && two == ATTACK_LOW;

}

private static int encodeResult(boolean player1Wins, boolean player2Wins) {
    return (player1Wins ? 1 : 0) + (player2Wins ? 2 : 0);
}

It would be nicer to use a structured type for the input and the output. The input actually has two fields: the position and the type (block or attack). The output also has two fields: player1Wins and player2Wins. Encoding this into a single integer makes it harder to read the code.

class PlayerMove {
    PlayerMovePosition pos;
    PlayerMoveType type;
}

enum PlayerMovePosition {
    HIGH,LOW
}

enum PlayerMoveType {
    BLOCK,ATTACK
}

class AttackResult {
    boolean player1Wins;
    boolean player2Wins;

    public AttackResult(boolean player1Wins, boolean player2Wins) {
        this.player1Wins = player1Wins;
        this.player2Wins = player2Wins;
    }
}

AttackResult fightMath(PlayerMove a, PlayerMove b) {
    return new AttackResult(isWinningMove(a, b), isWinningMove(b, a));
}

boolean isWinningMove(PlayerMove a, PlayerMove b) {
    return a.type == PlayerMoveType.ATTACK && !successfulBlock(b, a)
            || successfulBlock(a, b);
}

boolean successfulBlock(PlayerMove a, PlayerMove b) {
    return a.type == PlayerMoveType.BLOCK 
            && b.type == PlayerMoveType.ATTACK 
            && a.pos == b.pos;
}

Unfortunately, Java is not very good at expressing those kinds of data-types.