The title says it all if you have been developing before on Force.com IDE/ Mavenmate/IntelliJ and started using Salesforce DX. One that gets pretty tedious fast is manually pushing your code to your scratch org or deploying to your non-tracked org(DE/Sandbox). To enable auto push/deploy simply edit the .vscode/settings.json. This folder can be hidden on… Read More Enable Auto Push or Auto Deploy With Salesforce DX on VSCode
A quick tutorial on how to create a modal popup with Lightning Component. What is modal popup? Modal popup acts like a container for your content that displays on top of the content you are viewing. Imagine content stacked on top of it. In short, a modal popup is a very handy way of showing… Read More Creating a Modal Popup Lightning Component
“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
How to build a custom lightning component related list with real-time REST data. For this tutorial, I’ll show a technique on how to integrate external data and display the data real-time as a related list in Salesforce. This would not use an external object but a simple custom related list component that uses lightning:datatable base… Read More Custom Lightning Component Related List With Real-Time REST Data
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
On a standard POST call to a REST endpoint. The receiving endpoint expects a payload on the body of the POST. The service then parses the content of the body. For example on the following Salesforce endpoint I created a POST request and sent on the body the following JSON: With Apex REST here are… Read More How to parametize POST request on Salesforce Apex REST