“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” – Jamie Zawinski Every now and then I have some requirements where it entails parsing some data where I need to use some form of Regular Expression(regex), it is a syntax to use to search for… Read More How To Use Regular Expressions (Regex)
I’m starting a new habit of posting regularly on my blog every week. I’ll be kicking it off with tips for creating a generic class or a mocking factory for mocking calls to an external third-party service. Why do we need to do a mock? When running unit tests the platform does not allow to… Read More How to Create a Generic Class for Mocking REST Callouts for Unit Test
Introduced for some time now particularly in Winter 15. Queueable Apex addresses some short coming of the @future methods. It’s an offspring of the marriage of @future methods and Batch Apex. Queueable Apex allows you to submit jobs for asynchronous processing similar to future methods with the following additional benefits: Non-primitive types – you can… Read More Salesforce Queueable Apex and Future annotations
Learn and demystify JSON parsing in Apex. You got back a JSON string either as a response from a REST service, passed through from your visual force page via remote action, or passed from your lighting component to your apex controller, now how do you parse this information? For simple JSON structures Salesforce can automatically… Read More Demystifying JSON Parsing In Apex
This post shows you how you can reference another object through it’s external id. This is useful if you do not know the Salesforce ID but know the external ID. Example: You have an external field on the Account object with an API named myExternal_Id__c. You have an account record named “Burlington Textile of America”… Read More Reference the External ID on Lookup
I came upon this error when I am assigning the custom object to the master standard object. Eg. accountId derived from a query Then I get this error. The fix was actually easy. I just rewrote it to assign the master id on instantiating the child object. Hope somebody finds this useful. Recommended Reading: