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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)
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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

The Selector class template

A Selector class, like the Domain class, utilizes inheritance to gain some standard functionality. In this case, the base class, delivered through the Enterprise Apex Patterns library, fflib_SObjectSelector, is used to reduce the coding overhead in performing queries, adding some standard behaviors, and supporting best practices. These will be discussed in further detail throughout this chapter.

A basic example of a Selector class for querying Races records is as follows and leverages the ApplicationSelector class, which in turn extends the fflib_SObjectSelector class. As mentioned earlier, this is used to customize the default behavior of the fflib_SObjectSelector class to enable user mode by default for all Selectors’ logic:

public inherited sharing class RacesSelector 
   extends ApplicationSelector { 
 
    public List<Schema.SObjectField> getSObjectFieldList() { 
       return new List<Schema.SObjectField> { 
           Race__c...