Question

I want some help converting this Java code to an if/else statement.

public boolean equals(final Object obj) {
    boolean result = true;
    if (level != null ? !level.equals(log.level) : log.level != null)
    {
        result = false;
    }
    return result;
}

Answer 1

This is truly terrible code: It’s full of double negatives! No wonder you want to make it readable.

(I think) this is what it should be:

return log.level == null || log.level.equals(level);

Note that parameter obj is ignored (?)