You're reading from Mastering Apex Programming A Salesforce developer's guide to learn advanced techniques and programming best practices for building robust and scalable enterprise-grade applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837638352

Length 394 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Apex

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

CRM

Author (1):

Paul Battisson

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Triggers, Testing, and Security

2. Chapter 1: Common Apex Mistakes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Debugging Apex

4. Chapter 3: Triggers and Managing Trigger Execution

5. Chapter 4: Exceptions and Exception Handling

6. Chapter 5: Testing Apex Code

7. Chapter 6: Secure Apex Programming

8. Section 2: Asynchronous Apex

9. Chapter 7: Utilizing Future Methods

10. Chapter 8: Working with Batch Apex

11. Chapter 9: Working with Queueable Apex

12. Chapter 10: Scheduling Apex Jobs

13. Section 3: Integrations

14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Salesforce

15. Chapter 12: Using Platform Events

16. Chapter 13: Apex and Flow

17. Chapter 14: Apex REST and Custom Web Services

18. Chapter 15: Outbound Integrations – REST

19. Chapter 16: Outbound Integrations – SOAP

20. Chapter 17: DataWeave in Apex

21. Section 4: Apex Performance

22. Chapter 18: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits

23. Chapter 19: Performance Profiling

24. Chapter 20: Improving Apex Performance

25. Chapter 21: Performance and Application Architectures

26. Index

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Testing endpoints using Workbench

In Chapter 12, Using Platform Events, we saw how we can publish platform events through the Salesforce REST API using the Workbench tool at https://workbench.developerforce.com/restExplorer.php. When we define a new Apex REST API, we can access and test the API using the same REST Explorer tool.

Any custom Apex REST endpoint is exposed through the /services/apexrest/yourURLMapping endpoint. For our hospital endpoint, this is /services/apexrest/hospital.

In the following screenshot, you can see how I have entered this URL with the ACME123 resource identifier, and run a GET request to retrieve the hospital record with Hospital_Ref_Code__c set to ACME123:

Figure 14.4 – Running a GET request against a custom endpoint using the Workbench REST Explorer

You can see in the screenshot that the REST Explorer formats the response from the API. However, you can click the Show Raw Response link and the raw response from...