DF18: Everything that's Awesome with Apex

Dreamforce '18 presentation: https://success.salesforce.com/apex/Sessions?eventId=a1Q3A00001XoCSUUA3#/session/a2q3A000001WZTXQA4

Session Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ4Mr1OmQ6U

Transcript

1. Everything that's Awesome with Apex Dreamforce ’18 September 26, 2018 Chris Peterson Aaron Slettehaugh
2. Aaron Slettehaugh Product Management, Salesforce Platform Chris Peterson Product Management, Salesforce Platform
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4. Compiler rollout is complete Back to your regularly-scheduled roadmap
5. What's New A Recap of Summer '18 and Winter '19
6. Switch Statement 17,110 Points • Switch on most primitive types • Switch on a generic SObject instance • Use multiple literals for the same ‘when’ condition COUNT() Queries Without Worrying About Limits 7,010 Points • Count queries only consume one query row for limit purposes RecordTypeInfo.getDeveloperName() 4,990 Points • Get Record Type API names without a SOQL query Apex Code Size Limit Increase 360 Points • Organizations default to 6MB of Apex non-test code storage, up from 3MB Instantiate Custom Metadata Types in Apex • Construct and edit custom metadata fields in memory without DB update 30,000 IdeaExchange Points Quality of Life
7. IdeaExchange 30,000 points!
8. Compile On Deploy • Apex will automatically recompile as part of metadata deployments to production organizations • Avoids performance overhead on first use from "cold cache" • Opt-in for sandbox and developer edition orgs Skip Test Coverage Calculation • Optionally bypass collecting fine-grained test coverage data for faster test execution • One less barrier to test-driven-development patterns Deployment Cache • Tests make better use of cache • Faster deployment times Always looking out for improvements Performance
9. Detailed, actionable error reporting for Batch Apex Introducing: Batch Apex Error Events Batch Error Events include: • AsyncApexJobId • All recordIds in scope for the job chunk • Exception type • Exception message • Stack trace • RequestId (correlate with Event Monitoring data) Dramatically improved visibility into issues • Know which records were committed and which to retry Programmatically react to errors in real-time • Retry failed jobs - enqueue jobs from your event handler (if you want) Log with all the verbosity you could ever want • Full context available in events, including impacted records • For Iterator-based jobs, the Object.toString() value is used Opt-in, doesn't count for limits • To opt-in, implement Database.RaisesPlatformEvents • Standard platform event type doesn't count aginst org limits
10. How's it work?
11. How's it work? throws SObjectException if field is invalid
12. How’s it work?
13. What's Next A Sneak Peak at Spring '19 and Beyond
14. Where we are investing • Security • Quality of life (true to the core) • Language server • Asynchronous Apex • Platform Cache
15. Coming soon (Spring ‘19, Summer '19) Better visibility of Org Limits • Daily Async Apex Executions • Daily API Requests • Data & File Storage • … everything else sfdx force:limits:api:display / Rest API shows you Platform Cache available in scratch orgs • Platform cache capacity as a scratch org feature • [Optional] Automatically shrink deployed partitions to 1MB • Reduced minimum partition size to allow testing multiple partitions Refactoring support in Apex Language Server (Visual Studio Code) • Rename Symbol CRUD/FLS checks
16. Coming less soon Apex Language Server: expanded refactoring • Implement missing interface methods • Extract variable Platform Cache: Apex Metadata API Support • Allow ISV applications to automatically provision cache in post-install • Programatically re-configure cache partition sizing as needed Anonymous Inner Classes • Long-requested feature to cut down on boilerplate code Async enhancements • Continued batch robustness and visibility enhancements • Fast queueable • Consolidate futures and queueable
17. Security Review and You
18. Why? • A secure by default flexible sharing mode • Make developer intent explicit • Breeze through AppExchange Security Review What? • Sharing mode is inherited from calling class • If entry point, then sharing mode will be with sharing When? • Service layer classes, even if global • General use utility classes • Keep your controller classes with sharing New sharing mode in Winter '19 Inherited Sharing
19. Inherited sharing in practice Apex Entry Point: <apex:page controller= "SampleController" …. public inherited sharing class SampleController Effective Mode: WITH SHARING global inherited sharing ServiceLayerClass Effective Mode is unchanged, nothing has explicitly elevated permissions Apex Entry Point: <aura:component controller= "OtherControllerClass" …. public without sharing class OtherController global inherited sharing ServiceLayerClass Effective Mode: WITHOUT SHARING
20. How's it different? Apex Entry Point: <aura:component controller= "OtherControllerClass" …. public class OtherController global ServiceLayerClass Effective Mode is unchanged, still WITHOUT SHARING Apex Entry Point: <apex:page controller= "SampleControllerClass" …. public class SampleController Effective Mode: WITHOUT SHARING global inherited sharing ServiceLayerClass Effective Mode is unchanged, still WITHOUT SHARING Avoid: mixing no sharing declaration and inherited sharing Effective Mode: WITHOUT SHARING
21. Object and Field level security Roll-your-own security means 1. Lots of boilerplate code 2. Security gaps (inadvertently or intentionally ignored) 3. Performance overhead 4. Difficult to audit: ◦ requires advanced static analysis tools ◦ long security review cycles ◦ higher risk of failing security review (see #2) FLS/CRUD
22. FLS/CRUD Soon (Spring ‘19) WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED • straightforward • blunt tool Later SObjectAccessDecision Security.stripInaccessible(AccessType accessCheckType, List<SObject> target) //Not finalized syntax • gives dev more control • requires more skill Access check enforcement roadmap
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23. Resources
24. Apex in Trailhead Advanced Beginner Intermediate Apex Enterprise Patterns: Domain & Selector Layers Apex Enterprise Patterns: Service Layer Apex Metadata API Apex Specialist Advanced Apex Specialist Apex & .NET Asynchronous Apex Asynchronous Integration Services Apex Quick Start Apex Basics & Database Apex Triggers Apex Testing Apex Coding for Admins
25. Check out these recent blog posts Salesforce developers blog (Emily Kapner): Keep Your Org in Tip-Top Shape with Deployment Best Practices Andy (Fawcett) in the cloud: Managing Dependency Injection within Salesforce Salesforce developers blog (Peter Chittum): Rethink Trigger Logic with Apex Switch
26. Q&A