Questions tagged [method-overloading]
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Should I use method overloading or method overriding when creating converter service
In a Java Spring API, I'm implementing GeoJson Conversion Service to convert different types to geojson, I have GeoJsonConversionService interface, and one implementation is ...
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Is tag dispatch as used in CppCoreGuidelines T.65 antiquated?
The CppCoreGuidelines contain the following: T.65: Use tag dispatch to provide alternative implementations of a function [...] Example struct pod_tag {}; struct non_pod_tag {}; template<class T&...
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Is using lambdas and overload resolution a recommended way to write a visitor for a variant?
If I have a discriminated union and want to write a function piecewise, the following code works just fine, but is taking advantage of some fairly tricky (at least to me) stuff involving overload ...
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Handling Objects with Same Output but different required inputs
I have various types of financial securities. Each one of these securities shares a common set of methods. For instance, they all pay some amount of cash interest between two dates. Each security has ...
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What design pattern (if so) did I apply? How can I further improve it?
Suppose I have a program.c that needs element_123 to do some operations, and element_123 can be accessed by including agent.h /*program.c*/ #include "agent.h" uint32_t element_123 = 0; ...
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Providing two methods single + collection vs. only the collection
Edited Question based on the comments and great feedback (thanks) I have a REST controller exposing two GET endpoints. GetById - taking a single id (string) GetById - taking multiple id's (a ...
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Good etiquette for 2 optional arguments that can't both be used
I'll demonstrate with an example of the normal distribution in Python. def norm_pdf(x, mu=0, v=1, p=1): """Returns un-normalized probability density of normal distribution at x. mu: mean v: ...
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When is it appropriate to reuse a method for another method?
I am writing a program that describes different properties on a single Management Company's plot of land. For this program there are 3 overloaded addProperty method's. My question is I can reuse the ...
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UML - Overload operations with different parameters and a different return type
I would like to know if it is allowed in the UML to specify a different return type for overloaded operations. This is possible for methods in Java: public class C { public int addOne(int a) { ...
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Should we override all method overloads
Usually method overloads delegate their parameters to the more detailed overloads with default values. here is an example A(x) => A(x, null); A(x, y) => A(x, y, null); A(x, y, z) => ...; ...
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Is it enough for methods to be distinguished just by argument name (not type)?
Is it enough for methods to be distinguished just by argument name (not type) or is it better to name it more explicitly? For example T Find<T>(int id) vs T FindById<T>(int id). Is there ...
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How to handle a large number of optional parameters
I am currently developing on a small library allowing to read and write Java .properties files while retaining all the formatting (comments, whitespace, etc.): https://github.com/hupfdule/apron This ...
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Identical functions in two different assembllies - alternatives?
So I have a function in our application's Business Edits assembly (which references the Data Access assembly) which I've found a need to use in the Data Access assembly. I like the idea of keeping ...
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REST client behavior determined by parameter type
It is generally agreed that overloading a method should not change its behavior, but how much of a method's behavior should be kept consistent? Take for example a REST API client which is responsible ...
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Overloaded methods and optional arguments - is this a bad pattern to follow?
I'm creating an interface to record navigation history. First thing is, we have three types of records: Recordable (the default behaviour), Revisitable (a user can look at their history and revisit ...
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