Develop a class with overloaded methods

1. Create a class called the Customer.java class

2. Within the customer.java class, create a method called setCustomerInfo and add an overloaded method setCustomerInfo

3. Depending on how the setCustomerInfo method is called, it does one of the following:

a. Sets the ID, name, address and phone no. for a Customer object (this is the minimum info. Needed for a new Customer)
b. Sets the ID, name, address, phone no., and email address for a Customer object.

4. Create a new test class called CustomerTest

5. In the main method:

a. Create 2 object references to different Customer objects
b. Use each variation of the setCustomerInfo method to provide information for each Customer object.
c. Display the contents of each Customer object.

Thank you so much

Where have you got so far?

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If I haven't got you wrong, I can say it is an easy task to accomplish. Of course, I can't write the whole class for you here, but I certainly can give you a hint.

Again if I haven't got you wrong, you got a problem with method overloading, which is not a problem at all. The idea behind overloading is that the programmer should have the freedom to group methods that have a similar, or sometimes the same function.

A method is distinguished from others by these attributes:
1) its name
2) its parameters
(I agree this is not clear enough, but this is not the place to be more verbose.)

Thus, you could create your overloaded method like this:
public void setCustomerInfo(Customer c, String newName, String newPhone){
c.name=new String(newName);
c.phone=new String(newPhone);
}
public void setCustomerInfo(Customer c, String newName, String newPhone, String newEmail){
c.name=new String(newName);
c.phone=new String(newPhone);
c.email=new String(newEmail);
}
I assume you have already defined relevant instance variables in your definition of class Customer. I believe this will compile perfectly well. Note that, although the names are the same, the signatures are different, which practically make these two separate methods.

I'm trying to make some amateur progress in Java myself, please forgive me my mistakes if there are any.