Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Apex Cursors
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Use Cases for the CommercePayments Namespace
Connect in Apex
Connect in Apex Examples
Connect in Apex Features
Using ConnectApi Input and Output Classes
Understanding Limits for ConnectApi Classes
Packaging ConnectApi Classes
Serializing and Deserializing ConnectApi Objects
ConnectApi Versioning and Equality Checking
Casting ConnectApi Objects
Wildcards
Testing ConnectApi Code
Differences Between ConnectApi Classes and Other Apex Classes
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Data 360 In Apex
DataWeave in Apex
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Experience Cloud Sites
Email
External Services
Flows
Formula Evaluation in Apex
Metadata
Permission Set Groups
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Using ConnectApi Input and Output Classes

Some classes in the ConnectApi namespace contain static methods that access Connect REST API data. The ConnectApi namespace also contains input classes to pass as parameters and output classes that calls to the static methods return.

ConnectApi methods take either simple or complex types. Simple types are primitive Apex data like integers and strings. Complex types are ConnectApi input objects.

The successful execution of a ConnectApi method can return an output object from the ConnectApi namespace. ConnectApi output objects can be made up of other output objects. For example, the ConnectApi.ActorWithId output object contains properties such as id and url, which contain primitive data types. It also contains a mySubscription property, which contains a ConnectApi.Reference object.

All Salesforce IDs in ConnectApi output objects are 18 character IDs. Input objects can use 15 character IDs or 18 character IDs.

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