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

yes you can overuse it. In your example it would seem like the first and third would probably return a single item, where the second would return several. If that is correct, then I would call the first and third GetProduct and the second GetProducts or GetProductList

if this is not the case and all three return several (as in if you pass it productID 5, it returns any items with 5 in the productid, or returns any items with the string parameter in its name) then I would call all three GetProducts or GetProductList and override all of them.

In any event, the name should reflect what the function does, so calling it GetProduct (singular) when it returns a list of Products doesn't make a good function name. IMNSHO