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Create sample data for testing

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Create sample data for testing

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- [Instructor] I'm almost ready to display data but I need some data to display. I'm not ready to create my database yet, so I'll create a class that provides sample data. I'll place this in my data package, and I'll name the new class SampleDataProvider, and I'll create it as a class. I'll create a companion object block, and this is like creating static values in a Java class, and I'll create a few properties. The first one will be named sampleText1, and it'll have a simple value of, a simple note. Then I'll duplicate that a couple of times, I'll set this one to sampleText2 and this one to sampleText3. For the second one I'll add in a line feed with a backslash in, and this one will be a note with a line feed, and this will let me test simple multi-line notes, and then for the third one I'm going to want a much longer value, so I'm going to add in two pairs of triple double quotes like that, and when I separate…

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