help designing a method, should I use out or ref or return the type?
- by Blankman
I have a method that I will use in the following contexts:
1.
User user = null;
if(...)
{
user = defaultUser;
SetUser(a,b,user);
}
else
{
SetUser(a,b,user);
}
SaveUser(user);
So some cases are where user may be null, while in other cases it will already be initialized.
How should I design the SetUser method?
I currently have it like so, but this causes an error when user is null.
public void SetUser(object a, object b, User user)
{
if(user == null)
user = new User();
user.Security = a.security;
user.Blah = b.type;
}
