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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200920

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Apex

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Paul Battisson

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Table of Contents (21) 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 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

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Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how we can best work to debug our Apex code when we have a bug or issue. We started by noting some of the differences between debugging Apex compared to other languages and platforms due to its cloud-centric execution model.

We then discussed the standard debugging life cycle for most developers, which involves a lot of switching between windows to get static debug logs to inspect. We looked at how we can improve this debug cycle, by first reproducing the bug in a test to (a) reduce our replication time and (b) provide us with a concrete way of ensuring that the bug has been fixed.

Following this, we discussed how we can aid ourselves by improving the way in which we configure the debug log filters within Salesforce to get access to the most relevant information. We then discussed the use of the SFDX CLI to stream these logs to the terminal and then further filter them using the tools provided by the command line. This provided us with a...