Refactoring is a tool used for making code more readable and understandable to humans. It does not effect the functionality of your code. Refactoring code is necessary when you have other people reading your code. It also makes it easier to add new functionality and for others to utilize it in their code. So it is important to refactor code. Let’s have a base class with methods extract and replace methods extract (or replace) and extract (replace) methods. This method parses the content based on type, using an if condition that calls the parse method and extracts the properties and returns these (properties)