Exercise: Practicing Utility Methods from the Optional Library

Use the Option type

Now, it’s your turn!

Let’s practice using the Option type and some of its methods. For this exercise, fill in the PrintReport() method to show all the TV shows we have in our catalog. This time, instead of a Movie class, we have a TvShow class. Each TV show has a name, rating, creator, and start and end dates. And each creator has a name and a last award name.

Before jumping into the exercise, let’s cover three utility methods from the Optional library: Match(), MatchSome(), and MatchNone(). These three methods might be handy when solving the exercise.

With the Match() method, we can evaluate a function on either value of the Option. And with MatchSome() and MatchNone(), we can run a side effect with the Option having a value and with it not having one, respectively.

For example: