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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Modeling and Presenting Data Adding Repository Methods

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? My code is compiling properly but is still not valid to TeamTreehouse.

Am I missing something blatantly obvious in my code or is this a bug in TeamTreehouse's validation of my work?

VideoGamesRepository.cs
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Data
{
    public class VideoGamesRepository
    {
        // TODO Add GetVideoGames method

        // TODO Add GetVideoGame method

        private static VideoGame[] _videoGames = new VideoGame[]
        {
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 1,
                Title = "Super Mario 64",
                Description = "Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = true
            },
            new VideoGame()
            {
                Id = 2,
                Title = "Mario Kart 64",
                Description = "Mario Kart 64 is a 1996 go-kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                },
                Publisher = "Nintendo",
                Favorite = false
            }
        };

        public VideoGame[] GetVideoGames()
        {
            return _videoGames;
        }

        public VideoGame GetVideoGame(int id)
        {
            VideoGame videoGameToReturn = new VideoGame();

            foreach (VideoGame videoGame in _videoGames)
            {

                if (videoGame.Id == id)
                {
                    videoGameToReturn = videoGame;
                    break;
                }

            }
            return videoGameToReturn;
        }
    }
}
VideoGame.cs
namespace Treehouse.Models
{
    // Don't make any changes to this class!
    public class VideoGame
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public string[] Characters { get; set; }
        public string Publisher { get; set; }
        public bool Favorite { get; set; }

        public string DisplayText
        {
            get
            {
                return Title + " (" + Publisher + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

The problem might be what happens when it does not find the requested id.

In that case, the challenge might be expecting to get back a null to clearly signify failure instead of a freshly created (though empty) VideoGame object.

That helped. Thanks!