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In this video, we'll review the solution to the second challenge and introduce our third and final challenge—adding a method overload.
Instructions
3rd Challenge
- Add a method overload for the
Loan()method that doesn't accept any parameters. - Update the
GetDisplayText()method to account for when theLoaneefield doesn't have a value.
Addition Assignment Operator (+=)
For more information about the addition assignment operator (+=) see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-assignment-operator.
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How did it go with the second challenge?
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Let's walk through my solution.
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In the album class,
I stubbed out the loan and return methods.
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Public void Loan() And
public void Return()
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Since the methods won't be
returning a value to the caller,
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I use the special keyword void for
the method return type.
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To complete the loan method,
I added a string parameter named loanee.
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Defining this parameter
will allow the caller
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to provide the name of the person
who's borrowing the item.
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At this point, I remembered that I needed
to add two new fields to the album class.
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A string field named Loanee And
a bool field namedOnLoan.
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And then, back in the Loan method,
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I set the loanee field to
the loanee parameter value.
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And the OnLoan field to true to indicate
that the item is currently on loan.
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To complete the return method,
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I reset the loan-related fields
to their default values.
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Null for the Loanee field And
false for the OnLoan field.
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To indicate that the item was
returned to the media library.
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A quick note about the default values for
the Loanee, and OnLoan fields.
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The default values for
these fields work for
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our needs when an item is initially
created and added to the media library.
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It shouldn't have a Loanee field value.
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And the OnLoan field should be
set to false, given that we
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don't need to initialize these fields to
something other than their default values.
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Stylistically, you could explicitly
set them to their default values.
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Doing that might make
your intentions clearer
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to anyone else who's reading your code.
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If you like, you can set explicit default
values here where the fields are defined.
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Or you can do that in the constructor.
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But for now, I'm just going to let
the default values to be set implicitly.
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Continuing on.
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In the GetDisplayText method,
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I updated it to include the loan related
fields if the item is out on loan.
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I started with declaring
a string variable named text.
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For the text to return instead of
immediately returning it from the method.
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Then, I added an if statement in
order to check if the OnLoan field
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is set to a value of true.
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If OnLoan, then a set of curly braces.
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And if the OnLoan field
value evaluates to true,
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I appended the following
text onto the text variable,
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text = text + " (Currently on loan to
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Loanee, And then a close parenthesis.
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You could also use the addition
assignment operator here.
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This operator says add the text
variable to this string value, and
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assign the result back
to the text variable.
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You'll see this approach used frequently
when a string needs to be appended
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to another string.
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And don't forget to
return the text variable.
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To test my changes, I updated
the Program.cs file to call the loan and
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return methods.
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Let's first write the media type
information to the console,
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then loan out the first album.
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Remember, we need to pass the name
of the loanee to the method call.
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How about Joe Smith?
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Then, let's write the media
type information for
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album1 to the console again.
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And then, let's return the album.
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Album1 Return.
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And one more time.
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We'll write the media type information for
the album to the console.
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And lastly, I compiled and
ran the program.
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Here, we can see the display text
before the item was loaned out.
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And then,
when the item was loaned to Joe Smith.
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And here's the display text
after the item was returned.
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Looks like everything
is working as expected.
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For the third and
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last challenge in this practice session,
let's make it possible to indicate that
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something is on loan without having
to supply the loanee's name.
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To do this, you'll add a method
overload for the loan method.
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The current method accepts
a Loanee parameter, so
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you'll add a method overload with a loan
method that doesn't accept any parameters.
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Also, update the GetDisplayText()
method to account for
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when the Loanee field
doesn't have a value.
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And that's it for the third challenge.
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We'll see you in a bit.
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