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Learning Apex Programming

You're reading from   Learning Apex Programming Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782173977
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Apex Limits 3. More and Later 4. Triggers and Classes 5. Visualforce Development with Apex 6. Exposing Force.com to the World 7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar 8. Creating a Property Management Application 9. Test Coverage Index

Where we're going, we don't need roads

In Chapter 2, Apex Limits, we looked at how to write a method in Apex that will update contact numbers when the phones on their account records are modified. Then, we modified our code to operate efficiently on just the records that need to be operated upon and also added in statements to ensure we don't exceed our Apex governor limits. However, the only way to stay under the limits was to cap the number of records we operated upon, possibly leaving some records untouched. While business requirements can vary, I think it's safe to assume that no one likes it when code works only sometimes. If you need a refresher, here is the method we wrote:

//A common pattern for triggered operations in Apex
public static void updateContactPhones(
List<Account> priorAccounts, 
List<Account> updatedAccounts
){
  Set<Id> modifiedAccounts_Ids = new Set<Id>();
  for ( Integer i=0;i<updatedAccounts.size();i++ ){
    if (updatedAccounts...
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