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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at several ways in which we can integrate Apex and Flow together to help us deliver more functionality faster and work in tandem with point-and-click developers and administrators.

We began by reviewing Apex and Flow and why there is often some debate as to whether one is better than the other or should be used in preference. As we discussed, the tools should be reviewed and discussed together as complementary and that often you may need to migrate logic from one to the other as the system changes and develops.

After this, we discussed the primary way in which Apex and Flow interact directly: invocable actions. We had already seen that platform events enable Apex and Flow to interact at a distance, while invocable actions allow Flow to directly call Apex code and methods. We then reviewed how we would test this code to allow us to deploy it and ensure that it was functioning correctly.

The definition of these methods allowed us to discuss...

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