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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

Exception logging

As discussed in Chapter 2, Debugging Apex, gathering information and debugging exceptions in Apex can be difficult. By default, Apex comes with no long-term persistent logging or exception handling framework. As a developer or administrator, you will receive emails when certain exceptions occur within the system, however, they often lack any context or the detailed information needed to rectify the error correctly.

In this section, we are going to construct a very basic error logging framework to enable you to persist exceptions and errors to the database in order to obtain additional information. We are also going to discuss some ways of capturing application state for review to help in this.

Of primary importance with this framework will be logging our exceptions in a persistent manner for us to inspect at a later date.

For this reason, we will create a custom object, Log__c, which will hold the details of the exception (or any other logs) that we want...