Looping through a List and returning a value

Hi all,
Basically I want to loop through all available teams(a custom class I made) and then if the player is in it, return that team. However, I have no idea what to put for the else statement, as it is required for a vaule to be returned in an if statement. This is the code:

Code:java

package me.Etched.MCTF2.Managers;
 
import me.Etched.MCTF2.Main;
import me.Etched.MCTF2.API.MCTF2API;
import me.Etched.MCTF2.API.Team;
 
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
 
public class PlayerManager {
 
    private static MCTF2API tfAPI = new MCTF2API();
    private static Main tf = tfAPI.getMCTF2();
 
    public Team getPlayerTeam(Player p){
        for(Team t : tf.teams){
            if(t.contains(p)){
                return t;
            }else{
                //Help here pls
            }
        }
    }
 
}
 

Thanks,
Etched

 

It depends on what you want the return value to be if the player is in none of the teams. Usually, a good approach is to return "null". That indicates to the method calling your method, that he is without a team.

 

OK, thanks. I was wondering that. But will that stop the rest of the for loop?

Actually, I can't return null because it needs to return a team.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Etched get rid of the else, go to outside of the loop.
Also, I don't see the problem with returning null. What do you except a team-less player to return?

 

Etched null is of no type but can be assigned to any type. The compiler has no problem with it. I would advise not to have an else statement here, and instead return null at the very end of the method, outside the for-loop. If you really do not want to return null you could throw an exception.

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

Rocoty Necrodoom Thx, I get it now