Daniel Ballinger 🦈

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. @MitchSpano & myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session @ #DF25 We will explore upcoming features, like Apex cursors, improvements to testing on the platform, agentic tooling, & solutions for scaling your compute reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df25…

@msrivastav13 @PhilW_SF The Finalizer does not apply the maximum chaining depth as it was intended to be able to recover from error conditions and potentially start a new chain of queueables. That does leave another potential path for infinite recursion, but there needed to be some flexibility.

@PhilW_SF @FishOfPrey I think this is correct but I will wait for Daniel's response..

@FishOfPrey am I right in thinking that re-enqueuing a Queueable from its Finalizer implementation does not apply the maximum chaining depth check?

@PhilW_SF Thanks for raising this up again. I'll discuss it further with the ApexGuru team around the distinction between a bug and an anti-pattern.

@FishOfPrey I hope I'm not repeating myself unnecessarily, but it strikes me that "Fetch Contacts and Associated Tasks" trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/… has reveals an Apex runtime bug; surely Apex SOQL should be smart enough to just get the IDs from the records in an IN binding?

Join me and @FishOfPrey for a session on 'Deep Dive into Apex Best Practices for Apps and Agents'! During the session, we'll cover: Asynchronous Apex Trigger Recursions Agent-Specific Trigger Best Practices Managing Concurrency & Record Locking Performance Best Practices Handling Large Data Volumes System Monitoring for Apex in Agents & Apps #TDX25 @SalesforceDevs

@BrandBarr I'll briefly cover generics and were we are at with that during the presentation.

@FishOfPrey Generics?

Bindu Nair and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #TDX25. Major areas covered will include Zip processing in Apex, dynamic formulas, cursors, and deprecated globals. sfdc.co/ApexTdx25

@PhilW_SF ContentVersion and ContentDocument have specific sharing behavior that results in certain SOQL queries, such as those that don't specify the ID, from excluding some of the files the user has access to. This is called out as a special condition in developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-…

@FishOfPrey there's a strange misalignment of behaviour between the Salesforce UI and Apex "with sharing" for ContentDocument access. Could you take a look here (salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/4299…) and perhaps provide some feedback? Ta.

@ch_sz_knapp @stomita Is there an example to reproduce? Ideally our Cursors Beta could be applied to work around the limitations with OFFSET>

@stomita .@FishOfPrey here's a quirk with offset in apex

ApexのSOQLでoffset使ってて、クエリにロングテキストエリア項目が入ってると途中で打ち切りされる。（LTA項目250個までがlimitっぽい動作）。配列アサインよりなぜかfor-loopクエリのほうが200個で少ない。たぶんundocumented。known issueにもなし。offsetは極力使わないほうがよい

@PhilW_SF The transaction finalizer was always a separate mechanism, so the corresponding AsyncApexJob always updates regardless of the presence of a Finalizer. Is the Finalizer only doing the self-re-enqueue if the Queueable failed?

(Especially complex when there's a coordinator outside the Queueable too, trying to ensure we have a certain maximum number of Queueable instances. It's the combo of this, the self-re-enqueuing and the "gap" in status handling that makes for a hard time.)

@FishOfPrey we have found that the status on the AsyncApexJob record for a Queueable is updated before the Finalizer for the Queueable executes. This makes it difficult to accurately count Queueables if the queueable tries to re-enqueue itself (in Finalizer) for retry.

@PhilW_SF @rsoesemann @pmd_analyzer @RaviRaina94010 @gokul_149 @johnbelo @ca_peterson It is still a bug. However, it only manifests as impactful when binding to larger more complex lists of sobjects. So far we've seen minimal real-world impact from it. Have you run into it in practice?

@FishOfPrey @rsoesemann @pmd_analyzer @RaviRaina94010 @gokul_149 @johnbelo @ca_peterson Hi @FishOfPrey is this still a thing, or has the performance issue been resolved?

@rsoesemann @pmd_analyzer @RaviRaina94010 @gokul_149 @johnbelo @ca_peterson @FishOfPrey a bit of TLC needed for SOQL IN SObject array binding performance it seems. This is a common scenario which is used in lots of code examples. It should not have this downside.

@msrivastav13 @luke__cotter @SalesforceDevs It's something we could look into in the future, but it isn't currently on the road map. I used something like this occasionally in C# when it was added in 7. Votes on the idea will help with the prioritization

@luke__cotter @SalesforceDevs @FishOfPrey

Underscores in number literals for Salesforce Apex would be a really nice addition. If you agree go vote. ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00… @SalesforceDevs #SalesforceDevs #Salesforce

@adam17amo Yeah, Dreamforce scheduling can be tough. I'll head to the Apex booth in the platform park after if you want a quick run-through. I'll also share the slides.

@FishOfPrey Apex Roadmap in the middle of the Dev Keynote 😭 Will have to catch it on Salesforce+!

Some great content coming up on the last day of #DF24 * True to the Core - Moscone West, L3 Keynote at 10:30AM * Meet the Developers (and PMs) - Moscone West, L3 3024 at 12:45PM * Apex Roadmap - Moscone West, L3 3014 at 2:45PM trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-co…

If you missed this Apex roadmap session we are doing a repeat today in Moscone West 3014 at 2:45pm today. trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-co…

Come and see #Apex code on the big screen! We're doing the Apex roadmap session 2:45pm today for #df24 in the Metreon AMC, L3, Theater 15. We've got Cursors, Formula Evaluation, Data Cloud integration, and more. reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df24…

Welcome Coral Cloud Resorts sample app developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2024/09/… We have open sourced a sample app to make it easy for all of you developers to learn how to work with Agentforce, Prompt Builder, Data Cloud.. We are just getting started! #DF24 @SalesforceDevs

The timing is really good if you want a drink and popcorn at 2:30pm today.

@ch_sz_knapp @msrivastav13 @manjot0074 You too!

@FishOfPrey @msrivastav13 @manjot0074 Would love to. Can't though due to own session. Break a leg!

Join me and @FishOfPrey in AMC theater 15.. We are presenting the session 'Deep Dive into Advanced Apex Best Practices'