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Java Java Objects (Retired) Delivering the MVP Defaulting Parameters

Benjamin Ing
Benjamin Ing
910 Points

unsure what is being asked ??

really unsure... what is being asked here... what i am assuming is that.. you have to make a new method in shopping cart class... which is a method to add an item once... and then call it in the example class

Example.java
public class Example {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ShoppingCart cart = new ShoppingCart();
    Product pez = new Product("Cherry PEZ refill (12 pieces)");
    cart.addItem(pez, 5);
    /* Since a quantity of 1 is such a common argument when adding a product to the cart,
     * your fellow developers have asked you to make the following code work, as well as keeping
     * the ability to add a product and a quantity.
     */
    Product dispenser = new Product("Yoda PEZ dispenser");
    /* Uncomment the line following this comment,
       after adding a new method using method signatures,
       to solve their request in ShoppingCart.java
   */
    cart.addItem(pez);
  }

}
ShoppingCart.java
public class ShoppingCart {

  public void addItem(Product item, int quantity) {
    System.out.printf("Adding %d of %s to the cart.%n", quantity, item.getName());
    /* Other code omitted for clarity. Please imagine
       lots and lots of code here. Don't repeat it. 
    */
  }
  public void addItem(Product item)
    System.out.printf("Adding 1 of %s to the cart.%n" , item.getName()); 
}
Product.java
public class Product {
  /* Other code omitted for clarity, but you could imagine
     it would store price, options like size and color
  */
  private String mName;

  public Product(String name) {
      mName = name;
  }

  public String getName() {
      return mName;
  }
}

1 Answer

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

Your method signature for the overloaded addItem is correct, but you forgot the opening and closing braces to define the body.

The purpose of this challenge, besides method overloading, is to help you identify areas where you can reuse code. In this case, instead of rewriting the entire printf call and the format string again, you can just call the other version of the addItem method, passing in 1 for the quantity.