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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

Implementing the standard query logic

The previous Selector usage example required a cast of the list to be 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); 
}

Therefore, the usage code now looks like this:

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

By using a Selector for querying races, the preceding code is much smaller and therefore easier to read for other developers. In the next section, we will discover what other standard features are provided by the fflib_SObjectSelector class.

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...