box2d contact listener fixtures order

Question

I am trying to understand how does it work.

In my game I use box2d physics, to handle contacts I use contact listener, example:

ContactListener contactListener = new ContactListener()
{
    @Override
    public void beginContact(Contact contact)
    {
        final Fixture x1 = contact.getFixtureA();
        final Fixture x2 = contact.getFixtureB(); 

        if (x1.getBody().getUserData() != null && x2.getBody().getUserData() != null)
        {                   
            if (x1.getBody().getUserData().equals("player"))
            {                                               
                player.increaseFootContacts();
            }
        }
    }

And here`s question, is there any order in those fixtures? (x1 or x2) after 2 test, I found out that in this case, my player will be x1, and other objects x2, should I also check reverse order ? (if x2 is player and so on) ?

Answer 1

No, there is no guarantee which fixture is which. You have to check for both possibilities, like this:

if ( (userdataA.equals("player") && userDataB.equals("ground")) ||
     (userdataA.equals("ground") && userDataB.equals("player")) )
         player.increaseFootContacts();