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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
6
Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

Generating downloadable content

Apex, Salesforce Functions, and LWC JavaScript can be used to generate a wider range of file type content, such as CSV, JSON, or XML content. Similarly, using an Apex controller and LWC connected to an invoked Quick Action can generate downloadable content as well. The following changes have been made to the FormulaForce application and are included in the code for this chapter:

  • Added a new method, generateSummaryAsCSV, to RaceService
  • Added a new getCSVContent method to RaceSummaryController
  • Added a new raceDownloadCSV LWC
  • Added a new Quick Action for the LWC, Download Summary, to the Race layout

The new method is added to the existing RaceSummaryController class. Feel free to review the new Service method; note that it also uses the ContestantsSelector.selectByRaceIdWithContestantSummary method introduced in Chapter 7, Application Selector Layer. Here is the new controller method calling it:

@AuraEnabled
public...