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Modifying Find

 
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Are we allowed to modify the find method in the Data class for FBN assignment? I think older FBN assignments don't have a find method, but mine does. It seems TOTALLY useless. Maybe overloading it would be better? Any comments?
Matt DeLacey
 
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Why do you need to modify it in the first place? My assignment says nothing about the modification of any methods exception deprecations, lock and unlocking, and add criteriaFind. I don't see why you need to change it at all.
 
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Matt,
find() was really useful in my unit tests.
Jerry
 
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Thanks Jerry. Adrian--> The reason I wanted to modify it, was because it is useless to me now, but if I made some minor modifications it could do a lot of the work of my criteriaFind method. Anyway, the directions don't say anything about modifying find, but they don't say anything about NOT modifying it...?

With Respect,
Matt
 
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I do not think you should use Data.find() to implement your criteriaFind() method.
From what I understood, find() looks for the first instance of the search criteria and returns the record. I think this will work fine if each record has a unique field like Flight number.
This method will not work if the data structure is:
Flight Origin Destination
1 LAX SFO
2 SFT LAX
We will not be able to find flights arriving in LAX. Using this method, we will always hit record one and never be able to reach record 2.
I am waiting for your comments.
Mohnish
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I agree 100%. That is why I wanted to modify it. But I guess I have decided to let it be and overload it instead.
With Respect,
Matt
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