Avoiding If Else conditions [closed]

Question

I want to refactor the following code to avoid if...else so that I don't have to change the method every time a new survey type comes in (Open/closed principle). Following is the piece of code I am considering to refactor:

if (surveyType == SurveySubType.Anonymous)
{
    DoSomething(param1, param2, param3);

}
else if (surveyType == SurveySubType.Invitational)
{
    DoSomething(param1);
}
else if (surveyType == SurveySubType.ReturnLater)
{    
    DoSomething(param1);
}

To solve the problem, I added the following classes:

    public abstract class BaseSurvey
{
            public string BuildSurveyTitle()
            {
             ...doing something here
            }

    public abstract void DoSomething(int? param1,int?  param2,int?  param3);
}
public class InvitationalSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    public override void DoSomething(int? param1,int?  param2,int?  param3)
    {
    //I don't need param2 and param3 here

    }
}


public class ReturnLaterSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    public override void DoSomething(int? param1,int?  param2,int?  param3)
    {
    //I don't need param2 and param3 here

    }
}


public class AnonymousSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    public override void DoSomething(int? param1,int?  param2,int?  param3)
    {

    //I need param2 and param3 here
    //do something
    }

}

And this is what my code ends up:

var survey = SurveyFactory.Create();
survey.DoSomething(param1,param2,param3);

My question is what would be a nice to avoid passing param2 and param3 to InvitationalSurvey and ReturnLaterSurvey classes?

Answer 1

If param2 and param3 are concrete requirements of AnonymousSurvey, they shouldn't be part of the interface, but of the concrete class:

public abstract class BaseSurvey
{
    public abstract void DoSomething(param1);
}

public class InvitationalSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    public void DoSomething(param1)
    {
    }
}


public class ReturnLaterSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    public void DoSomething(param1)
    {
    }
}


public class AnonymousSurvey: BaseSurvey
{
    private readonly object param2;
    private readonly object param3

    public AnonymousSurvey(param2, param3)
    {
        this.param2 = param2;
        this.param3 = param3;
    }

    public void DoSomething(param1)
    {
        // use this.param2 and this.param3 here
    }
}