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Mastering Apex Programming

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638352
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (28) 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
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 27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Calling future methods

As noted in the previous section, our future method is simply a static method, meaning we can call the method in the same way we would call any static method. For example, imagine our method was defined as follows:

public class FutureClass {
    @future
    public static void myFutureMethod() {
        //Method code
    }
}

Then, to invoke this method, we would simply execute the following line of code within our code to call the function:

FutureClass.myFutureMethod();

We can call future methods from almost any Apex code we are executing with only a small number of exceptions. You cannot chain future methods together, so the following code would compile but throw an exception when futureB() was invoked:

@future
public static void futureA() {
//Code for futureA method
}
@future
public static void futureB() {
    //Execute some other...
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