Capturing state

In order to capture the state of our class at a point in time, we will need to take the specific instance of the class and find a way of representing it that is both human-readable and simple to obtain. The prime way of doing this in Apex is with JSON, by serializing the class instance. We can then store this JSON as a file attached to the Log__c record to allow us to view it later.

In order to ensure we comply with the Heap Size governor limit, we should make this method single-use only and persist any other logs separately. Our method to do this would look as follows:

public static void logWithState(String stackTrace, String logMessage, String logType, Object instance) {
    Log__c log = new Log__c();
    log.Stack_Trace__c = stackTrace;
    log.Log_Message__c = logMessage;
    log.Type__c = logType;
    insert log;
    
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