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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

Invoking Queueable Apex

Queueable Apex jobs are invoked using the System.enqueueJob method as shown in the following code snippet:

Id apexJobId = System.enqueueJob(new ExampleQueueable());

As is shown, the System.enqueueJob method returns an Id for an AsyncApexJob sObject instance that we can use to monitor the status of the Queueable Apex job in the same way we monitor the job in a Batch Apex context. It should be noted, however, that as Queueable Apex does not process batches of records, JobItemsProcessed and TotalJobItems will always return 0.

From a synchronous Apex process, we can enqueue 50 jobs but can only enqueue a single job when enqueuing from a Batch Apex or Queueable Apex class (more on this in the next section). There are some shared ways of circumventing this that can be found on the internet, such as scheduling another Apex job that will enqueue the job should you be at the limit of the available jobs in the queue. I would not recommend this for a number of...

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