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Mastering Apex Programming

Mastering Apex Programming - Second Edition

By : Paul Battisson
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Mastering Apex Programming

Mastering Apex Programming

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By: Paul Battisson

Overview of this book

Applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations' IT systems, with more complex and integrated solutions being delivered every day. As a Salesforce developer working with Apex, it is important to understand the range and variety of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and what the best practices are. This revised second edition includes a complete restructuring and five new chapters filled with detailed content on the latest Salesforce innovations including integrating with DataWeave in Apex, and utilizing Flow and Apex together to build scalable applications with Administrators. This Salesforce book starts with a discussion around common mistakes, debugging, exception handling, and testing. The second section focuses on the different asynchronous Apex programming options to help you build more scalable applications, before the third section focuses on integrations, including working with platform events and developing custom Apex REST web services. Finally, the book finishes with a section dedicated to profiling and improving the performance of your Apex including architecture. With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book you will be able to develop robust and scalable applications in Apex with confidence.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Section 1: Triggers, Testing, and Security
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Section 2: Asynchronous Apex
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Section 3: Integrations
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Section 4: Apex Performance

Testing Batch Apex

In this chapter, we’ve seen the different use cases and ways of invoking Batch Apex jobs. The final thing we need to do is test our batch code appropriately to ensure that the code runs as expected. This is a critical step as Batch Apex processes run across a large volume of data and can therefore have repercussions if incorrect updates or changes are made. For example, if a batch job is used to recreate the sharing settings for an organization and makes incorrect adjustments, this can have severe consequences and potential legal implications around data sharing.

Batch Apex is like other forms of asynchronous Apex, where we test it using the Test.startTest() and Test.stopTest() methods to make the asynchronous operation fire; take the following example:

Test.startTest();
Database.executeBatch(new ExampleBatch());
Test.stopTest();
//Verify behaviour of batch class was as expected

While this is simple to implement and follows the same pattern as other...

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