Is a switch statement applicable in a factory method? c#

Question

I want to return an Interface and inside a switch statement I would like to set it. Is this a bad design?

private IResultEntity GetEntity(char? someType)
            


        

Answer 1

I don't think there anything wrong with this. Yes, switch statements are a code smell, but in my book, they're OK in this sort of situation. There's actually little else you could do to achieve things like this.