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

Overloading is desirable polymorphic behavior. It helps the human programmer remember the method name. If explicit is redundant with the type parameter, then it is bad. If the type parameter does not imply what the method is doing, then explicit starts to make sense.

In your example, getProductByName is the only case where explicit might make sense, since you might want to get product by some other string. This problem was caused by the ambiguity of primitive types; getProduct(Name n) might be a better overload solution in some cases.