Method Overloading. Can you overuse it?

Question

What\'s better practice when defining several methods that return the same shape of data with different filters? Explicit method names or overloaded methods?

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Answer 1

Another option is to use a Query object to build the "WHERE Clause". So you would have only one method like this:

public List GetProducts(Query query)

The Query object contains the condidition expressed in an Object Oriented way. The GetProducts obtain the query by "parsing" the Query object.

http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/queryObject.html