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.

Connect in Apex

Use Connect in Apex to develop custom experiences in Salesforce. Connect in Apex provides programmatic access to B2B Commerce, CMS managed content, Experience Cloud sites, topics, and more. Create Apex pages that display Chatter feeds, post feed items with mentions and topics, and update user and group photos. Create triggers that update Chatter feeds.

Many Connect REST API resource actions are exposed as static methods on Apex classes in the ConnectApi namespace. These methods use other ConnectApi classes to input and return information. The ConnectApi namespace is referred to as Connect in Apex.

In Apex, you can access some Connect data using SOQL queries and objects. However, it’s simpler to expose data in ConnectApi classes, and data is localized and structured for display. For example, instead of making several calls to access and assemble a feed, you can do it with a single call.

Connect in Apex methods execute in the context of the user executing the methods. The code has access to whatever the context user has access to. It doesn’t run in system mode.

For Connect in Apex reference information, see ConnectApi Namespace.