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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

Defining a schedulable Apex class

We define an Apex class that can be scheduled by implementing the Schedulable interface. Similar to our Queueable interface, it provides a single method, execute, which we must implement. We can see this in the following code:

public class SchedulableExample implements Schedulable {
    public void execute(SchedulableContext SC) {
        //Do something
   }
}

From the preceding code, we see that within the execute method, it is the best practice to make a call to another class containing the logic we wish to run rather than explicitly declaring the logic within the execute method itself. This primarily helps to ensure that you reuse code as much as possible and manage your separation of concerns, but this also makes the processing code easier to test by allowing you to test separately from the scheduled execution setup.

It is also important to recognize that our SchedulableExample...

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