Refactoring if/else logic

Question

I have a java class with a thousand line method of if/else logic like this:

if (userType == \"admin\") {
     if (age > 12) {
          if (location == \"         


        

Answer 1

Use OOP Concepts: This is dependent of the rest of the design, but maybe you should have a user interface, Student,Admin interfaces the extends it and UsaStudent,MexicoStudent,UsaAdmin,MexicoAdmin implementation that do some stuff. Hold a User instance and just call its doStuff method.