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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

Common Apex Mistakes

In this chapter, we will cover common mistakes made when writing Apex code and the appropriate defensive programming techniques to avoid them. Before we begin to move into more advanced topics within the Apex language, it is important that first we ensure a common grounding by removing any common errors within our code. For some of you, this material may simply be a refresher or a reiteration of some practices. In general, these mistakes form the basis of many of the common exceptions and errors that I have seen in my time working with the Salesforce platform and so are worth addressing upfront. By the end of this chapter, you will hopefully be more aware of when these mistakes may occur within your code and be able to develop in a defensive style to avoid them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Null pointer exceptions
  • Bulkification of Apex code to avoid governor limits
  • Hardcoding references to specific object instances
  • Patterns to deal with managing data across a transaction

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