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How did you do?
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Let's take look at my solution.
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In album class,
I added second method named loan.
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Public void Loan And just
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like before since this method won't return
a value, I used void for the return type.
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Actually, when overloading a method,
the return types have to match.
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If they don't match,
the C# compiler will generate an error.
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Since this version of the method
will be used to loan out an item
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without supplying the loanee's name,
we don't need to define any parameters.
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For the method implementation
we could just repeat the code
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to set the online field to true.
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Or we can call the new loan
method from the old load method.
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Notice though that now we're setting
the on loan field to true in two
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different places here and here.
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Inside of this method overload,
instead of setting on loan field to true,
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let's just call the other method.
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Doing it this way helps to keep
our code from containing any
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unnecessary duplication.
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The approach of calling a method
overload from within a method overload
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is something that's commonly done.
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Next, I updated the GetDisplayText
method to account for
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with the Loanee field
doesn't have a value.
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So, if Loanee does not equal null and
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Loanee does not equal empty string.
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Adding the second check to make sure that
the Loanee field isn’t set to an empty
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string makes our code more resilient.
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This is a very common thing to do to
check to see if a string is not null and
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not empty.
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This is so common,
that the .net framework string data type
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includes a special method that
we can use for this purpose.
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String is null or empty.
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Then you pass in the string
that you want to check.
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In this case, the Loanee field.
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Since this method checks
that the string is null or
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empty, we need to add the not or
the logical negation operator
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before the method call in order
to negate the return value.
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So if the method returns false, meaning
that the string isn't null or empty,
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the not operator will flip that to true
and satisfy our conditional statement.
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So if we have a loanee field value,
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then I append the text like
we previously were doing.
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And if we don't have a Loanee field value,
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we can use this else block to
append the following text.
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Currently on loan.
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And that's the best we can do.
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We simply don't know the Loanee's name.
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In the program.csfile main method,
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I added a call to the loan method overload
and another call to the return method.
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Album2.Loan, this time,
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without passing any argument,
and album2 Return.
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I also added two additional
console writeline method calls.
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Here, let's write album2's information
to the console, and down here.
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And lastly, I compiled and ran my program.
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And here's the expected output.
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Here's when an item is out on loan and
we know the loanee name.
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And here's when an item is out on loan and
we don't know the loanee's name.
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Excellent job completing
this practice session.
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Be sure to check out the next
session in the series
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after you've completed the third
stage in the C# objects course.
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Thanks for practicing with me and
we'll see you next time.
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