Factory method with DI and IoC

Question

I am familiar with these patterns but still don\'t know how to handle following situation:

public class CarFactory
{
     public CarFactory(Dep1,Dep2,Dep3,De         


        

Answer 1

I would consider giving the dependencies a good structure so you can utilize something similar to Wiktor's answer, but I would abstract the Car factory itself. Then, you don't use the if..then structure.

public interface ICar
{
    string Make { get; set; }
    string ModelNumber { get; set; }
    IBody Body { get; set; }
    //IEngine Engine { get; set; }
    //More aspects...etc.
}

public interface IBody
{
    //IDoor DoorA { get; set; }
    //IDoor DoorB { get; set; }
    //etc
}

//Group the various specs
public interface IBodySpecs
{
    //int NumberOfDoors { get; set; }
    //int NumberOfWindows { get; set; }
    //string Color { get; set; }
}

public interface ICarSpecs
{
    IBodySpecs BodySpecs { get; set; }
    //IEngineSpecs EngineSpecs { get; set; }
    //etc.
}

public interface ICarFactory
    where TCar : ICar
    where TCarSpecs : ICarSpecs
{
    //Async cause everything non-trivial should be IMHO!
    Task CreateCar(TCarSpecs carSpecs);

    //Instead of having dependencies ctor-injected or method-injected
    //Now, you aren't dealing with complex overloads
    IService1 Service1 { get; set; }
    IBuilder1 Builder1 { get; set; }
}

public class BaseCar : ICar
{
    public string Make { get; set; }
    public string ModelNumber { get; set; }
    public IBody Body { get; set; }
    //public IEngine Engine { get; set; }
}

public class Van : BaseCar
{
    public string VanStyle { get; set; } 
    //etc.
}

public interface IVanSpecs : ICarSpecs
{
    string VanStyle { get; set; }
}

public class VanFactory : ICarFactory
{
    //Since you are talking of such a huge number of dependencies,
    //it may behoove you to properly categorize if they are car or 
    //car factory dependencies
    //These are injected in the factory itself
    public IBuilder1 Builder1 { get; set; }
    public IService1 Service1 { get; set; }

    public async Task CreateCar(IVanSpecs carSpecs)
    {
        var van = new Van()
        {
           //create the actual implementation here.
        };
        //await something or other
        return van;
    }
}

I didn't list it, but you can implement multiple types of cars and their corresponding factories now and use DI to inject whatever you need.