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Apex Design Patterns

Apex Design Patterns

By : Zaa, Verma
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Apex Design Patterns

Apex Design Patterns

4.7 (9)
By: Zaa, Verma

Overview of this book

Apex is an on-demand programming language providing a complete set of features for building business applications – including data models and objects to manage data. Apex being a proprietor programming language from Salesforce to be worked with multi tenant environment is a lot different than traditional OOPs languages like Java and C#. It acts as a workflow engine for managing collaboration of the data between users, a user interface model to handle forms and other interactions, and a SOAP API for programmatic access and integration. Apex Design Patterns gives you an insight to several problematic situations that can arise while developing on Force.com platform and the usage of Design patterns to solve them. Packed with real life examples, it gives you a walkthrough from learning design patterns that Apex can offer us, to implementing the appropriate ones in your own application. Furthermore, we learn about the creational patterns that deal with object creation mechanism and structural patterns that helps to identify the relationship between entities. Also, the behavioural and concurrency patterns are put forward explaining the communication between objects and multi-threaded programming paradigm respectively. We later on, deal with the issues regarding structuring of classes, instantiating or how to give a dynamic behaviour at a runtime, with the help of anti-patterns. We learn the basic OOPs principal in polymorphic and modular way to enhance its capability. Also, best practices of writing Apex code are explained to differentiate between the implementation of appropriate patterns. This book will also explain some unique patterns that could be applied to get around governor limits. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in developing your applications on Force.com for Salesforce
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Hard-coding


Now, this is the most discussed, most noted, and most emphasized anti-pattern that exists. It is so common and widespread that ever since programming began this anti-pattern has existed and still prevails. As you probably already know that using any embedded values (string literals, numbers, Ids, and so on) within the code is termed hard-coding and is an anti-pattern.

As per general programming, hard-coding values is considered as a bad practice, and instead, any such values should be handled via the available configuration options. In Salesforce, we have custom labels, custom settings, custom metadata types, and caching or custom objects.

Tip

In Apex, Ids are another important set of values, which should never be hard-coded, as they can change across different Salesforce environments.

Some tips to avoid hard-coding are as follows:

  • Retrieve Ids of standard objects (profile, record type, reports, e-mail template, and so on) by either using dynamic Apex or querying appropriate setup...
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