Replace Type Code with Class

A class has a numeric type code that does not affect its behavior.

Replace the number with a new class.

For more information see page 218 of Refactoring

Corrections

Privitizing the accessors for the type code

At the end of the refactoring I said that you could make those methods that use the type code, eg getCode(), private. I neglected to say that you first have to find the callers of those methods and change them to no longer use the code number.

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