MatchPlayer

Purpose

MatchPlayer is a representation of a User during matches. It is designed to separate player variables which can change during a match from those which should remain unchanged. This particularly pertains the a Players deck, cards, and health which are all manipulated by BasicMatchController during a match.

Private Fields

Italics indicates fields is currently unused.

Type	Name
Player	player
Int	maxPyramidCards
Int	maxBoardCards
Int	health
Deck	deck

Public Constructor

public MatchPlayer(Player player, int maxPyramidCards, int maxBoardCards)

The constructor saves player, maxPyramidCards, and maxBoardCards to the related private fields. It also sets the health field using the player.getMaxHealth() method.

Additionally it creates a new deck which is a copy of the Users deck using the player getDeck() method and the deck addCard() method. This deck is also shuffled using deck.shuffleDeck()

Public Methods

Name	Returns	Parameters	Description
getNextReplenish	List<Card>	int number	Used to Remove the given number of cards from the deck and add them to the pyramid
changeHealth	Void	*int diff	Used to increase or decrease the players health
attackedBy	Void	MatchCard attacker	Uses the changeHealth Method to adjust health based on the attack value of the card passed as parameter
getPlayer	this.player	-	Used to get the instance of player
getHealth	this.health	-	Used to get the current players health
getDeck	this.deck	-	Used to get the current players deck