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Mastering Apex Programming

By : Paul Battisson
5 (1)
Book Image

Mastering Apex Programming

5 (1)
By: Paul Battisson

Overview of this book

As applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations, developers are shifting focus to Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary programming language. As a Salesforce developer, it is important to understand the range of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and best practices for working with Apex. Mastering Apex Programming will help you explore the advanced features of Apex programming and guide you in delivering robust solutions that scale. This book starts by taking you through common Apex mistakes, debugging, exception handling, and testing. You'll then discover different asynchronous Apex programming options and develop custom Apex REST web services. The book shows you how to define and utilize Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and Scheduled Apex using common scenarios before teaching you how to define, publish, and consume platform events and RESTful endpoints with Apex. Finally, you'll learn how to profile and improve the performance of your Apex application, including architecture trade-offs. With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build robust and scalable applications in Apex.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Triggers, Testing, and Security
8
Section 2 – Asynchronous Apex and Apex REST
15
Section 3 – Apex Performance

Testing Queueable Apex

To test Queueable Apex, we follow the same pattern we have used for all our asynchronous code. We place the System.enqueueJob call between a Test.startTest method call and a Test.stopTest method call to run the asynchronous process synchronously:

@isTest
private class ExampleQueueable_Test {
	
	@isTest
	private static void testExecute() {
		Test.startTest();
		System.enqueueJob(new ExampleQueueable());
		Test.stopTest();
		//Assert on expected changes
	}
}

Note that if you were to run the following code:

@isTest
private class ExampleQueueable_Test {
	
    @isTest
    private static void testExecute() {
          Test.startTest();
          Id apexJobId = System.enqueueJob(new           ExampleQueueable());
          ...