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sebipinnsebipinn 

Overloading other methods

Is there a way to set up a parameter in a method to accept anyType? almost how when you use Double.valueOf(anyType) works. I want to do this to my own method where i can accept a string, an integer, or double and return a double after i do some transformations to it.

 

Is this possible?

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sebipinnsebipinn

Ah nevermind. Looks like it didn't like me doing the following:

 

public static Double someMethod(Double x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(Integer x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(String x) { .. }

 

It was complaining when i tried to test with an Integer, but apparently Double accepts integers, so I simply had to leave off the Integer one...

 

public static Double someMethod(Double x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(String x) { .. }

 

works just fine

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sebipinnsebipinn

Ah nevermind. Looks like it didn't like me doing the following:

 

public static Double someMethod(Double x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(Integer x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(String x) { .. }

 

It was complaining when i tried to test with an Integer, but apparently Double accepts integers, so I simply had to leave off the Integer one...

 

public static Double someMethod(Double x) { .. }

public static Double someMethod(String x) { .. }

 

works just fine

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Avinaash BAvinaash B

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You can pass in an object type parameter and cast it arbitrarily inside the function for different situations like so
  
public static void funct(object parameter) {
		if (situation1) {
                        string castParam = (String)parameter; 
                        // do something here
                } else if (situation2) {
                        Double castParam = (Double)parameter;
                        // do something here
                } else {
                        Boolean castParam = (Boolean)parameter;
                        // do something here
                }
	}

instead of overloading the function you can make it behave the way you want using conditionals and will accept different single param type

Hope this helps!

AM
SF YodhaSF Yodha
Hi,
Can I overload a method with different number of parameters ?