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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Modeling and Presenting Data Adding Repository Methods

Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall
1,763 Points

Cannot implicitly convert type `Treehouse.Models.VideoGame' to `Treehouse.Models.VideoGame[]'

Unable to complete Challenge Task 2 of 2. The part I don't get is:

The GetVideoGame method should return the VideoGame object instance from the _videoGames private static field array of VideoGame objects whose Id property matches the provided id parameter value.

Keep getting the following error:

Cannot implicitly convert type Treehouse.Models.VideoGame' toTreehouse.Models.VideoGame[]'

VideoGamesRepository.cs
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Data
{
    public class VideoGamesRepository
    {
        // TODO Add GetVideoGames method

        // TODO Add GetVideoGame method

        private static VideoGame[] _videoGames = new VideoGame[]
        {
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 1,
                Title = "Super Mario 64",
                Description = "Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = true
            },
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 2,
                Title = "Mario Kart 64",
                Description = "Mario Kart 64 is a 1996 go-kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = false
            }
        };

       public VideoGame[] GetVideoGames(int id){

             VideoGame[] videoGameToReturn = null;

             foreach(var videoGame2 in _videoGames)
             {
                if (videoGame2.Id == id){
                    videoGameToReturn = videoGame2;
                    break;
                }
             }

            return videoGameToReturn;
        }

    }
}
VideoGame.cs
namespace Treehouse.Models
{
    // Don't make any changes to this class!
    public class VideoGame
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public string[] Characters { get; set; }
        public string Publisher { get; set; }
        public bool Favorite { get; set; }

        public string DisplayText
        {
            get
            {
                return Title + " (" + Publisher + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

In task 1 you write the "GetVideoGames" (plural) method, it takes no arguments. Once you pass task 1 you should leave this method as-is while you create an additional method named "GetVideoGame" (singular) which does take an argument.

These two methods return different things, the first returns an array, but the second returns a single object (or null).

I'm guessing you got the two tasks confused because I don't see the original method code, but I do see the original name and type attached to some new code.

Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall
1,763 Points

Steven, thanks for that clarification. That helped me get through it.