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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Implementing the standard query logic


The previous Selector usage example required a cast of the list returned to a list of Race__c objects, which is not ideal. To improve this, you can easily add a new method to the class to provide a more specific version of the base class method, as follows:

public List<Race__c> selectById(Set<Id>raceIds){
  return (List<Race__c>) selectSObjectsById(raceIds);
}

Thus, the usage code now looks like this:

List<Race__c> races = 
  new RacesSelector().selectById(raceIds); 

Standard features of the Selector base class

The fflib_SObjectSelector base class contains additional functionality to provide more query consistency and integration with the platform. These apply to the aforementioned selectSObjectsById method as well as your own. The following sections highlight each of these features.

Tip

You can, of course, extend the standard features of this base class further. Perhaps there is something you want all your queries to consider, a common...