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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

Log levels

Now that we have a simple way of replicating the issue that can speed up our debugging, the next step for us is to ensure we have the correct level of logging. Salesforce debug logs have a limit of 20MB, which is a large amount of data for a purely text-based output and can end up with you viewing what amounts to a lot of noise about the transaction. Setting up our log levels correctly is going to help us immensely in weeding out the issue without too much additional data to scroll and read through.

We can set the granularity of our debug logs to a series of different levels across a number of categories. The categories and a brief description of what information they contain is provided in the following table:

Table 2.1 – Debug log categories

For each category, we can also define a log level from one of the following options:

  • NONE
  • ERROR
  • WARN
  • INFO
  • DEBUG
  • FINE
  • FINER
  • FINEST

This can give us over 100...

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