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Mastering Apex Programming

You're reading from   Mastering Apex Programming A developer's guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200920
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 and Apex REST
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. Chapter 11: Using Platform Events 14. Chapter 12: Apex REST and Custom Web Services 15. Section 3 – Apex Performance
16. Chapter 13: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits 17. Chapter 14: Performance Profiling 18. Chapter 15: Improving Apex Performance 19. Chapter 16: Performance and Application Architectures 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining a Batch Apex class

When we refer to a Batch Apex class, we actually mean a class implementing the Database.Batchable interface and its related interfaces. As we will see when we discuss invoking Batch Apex in the next main section of the chapter, this provides us with some benefits in making our code dynamic in certain situations. In this section, we will review defining a Batch Apex class using the base interface and the additional related interfaces we can also apply.

The base interface

The simplest Batch Apex class definition is one in which we define a class that implements the Database.Batchable interface, as shown in the following code snippet:

public class ExampleBatch implements Database.Batchable<sObject> {
	
    public Database.QueryLocator start(Database.    BatchableContext bc) {
        //Retrieve our data for processing
    }
   &...
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