Need help with if/else

I am using this code so that when a player types /wool it changes the colour of the wool to whatever colour they type as args[0], what I want to add is that when they change the colour of wool sucsessfully, it prints a message to their screen saying "You changed the colour of (amount of wool) to (colour changed to) from (colour the wool used to be)." Here is the code:

Code:java

        else if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("wool")) {
            String commandName = cmd.getName();
            Player user;
            if (sender instanceof Player)
            {
                user = (Player) sender;
            }else{
                return false;
            }
                if(user.getInventory().getItemInHand().getTypeId() == 35){
                    if(args.length == 1){
                        if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("white"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)0);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("orange"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)1);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("magenta"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)2);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("lightblue"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)3);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("yellow"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)4);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("lime"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)5);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("pink"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)6);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("grey"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)7);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("silver"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)8);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("cyan"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)9);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("purple"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)10);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("blue"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)11);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("brown"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)12);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("green"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)13);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("red"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)14);
                        else if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("black"))
                            user.getInventory().getItemInHand().setDurability((short)15);
                        else
                            setDamageByString(user, args[0]);
                    }else{
                        user.sendMessage(ChatColor.YELLOW + "Cloth Colors:" + ChatColor.GREEN + " white, orange, magenta, lightblue, yellow, lime, pink, grey, silver, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, and black.");
                    }
                    return true;
                }else{
                    user.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Error: " + ChatColor.YELLOW + "You must have wool in your hand to use this command.");
                    return true;
                }
            }

 

I would do new private void, cast three arguments: player, color one, color two than form a message.
Also with Java 1.7 I would use switch instead of that if statements.

 

Can I have some code for that, sorry I am learning

 

First result in google:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html

 

It would be something like this:

Code:

String StringToCompare = "Random String";
String StringAsVariable = "It can also be variable";
 
switch(StringToCompare){
case "string one":
    //Your code
case "string two":
    //Your code
case StringAsVariable:
    //Your code
Default:
    //Code if none matches
}

You can do it both ways, but for onCommand, it doesn't really matter, but standart is with if and else if statements. Just informational.

 

This is not recommend, this only works whit java 7, most of the server s are not uptodate, they use java6 still, so your plugin is not able to run on most servers you can buy

 

I know, but if you code for specific server which supports Java 7, this can save you a lot of time.

 

To me, if (var.equalsIgnoreCase("val")) is no harder than a switch statement, so i just always do that with compatibility in mind.

 

Well, it depends how are you used to do it
I use it if I have method which checks for permission, each integer represents a permission.