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Asynchronous Apex in Salesforce allows processes to run in the background without user intervention, enhancing user efficiency and scalability. It includes four types: Future Methods, Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and Scheduled Apex, each serving different needs such as handling large data sets and executing tasks at specific times. Monitoring of these jobs can be done through the Salesforce user interface under Apex Jobs.

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Asynchronous Apex in Salesforce allows processes to run in the background without user intervention, enhancing user efficiency and scalability. It includes four types: Future Methods, Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and Scheduled Apex, each serving different needs such as handling large data sets and executing tasks at specific times. Monitoring of these jobs can be done through the Salesforce user interface under Apex Jobs.

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Asynchronous Apex
Salesforce Apex Tutorial

@ soham-datta
What is Asynchronous Apex?

It is used to run processes in a separate


thread, at a later time.

It is a process or function that executes a task


"in the background" without the user having to
wait for the task to finish.

It typically uses for callouts to external


systems, operations that require higher limits,
and code that needs to run at a certain time.

The key benefits include:


User efficiency, Scalability, Higher Limits
Types of Asynchronous Apex?

It comes in four different flavors includes:

Future Methods
Batch Apex
Queueable Apex
Scheduled Apex

In upcoming slides we will discuss this in details.


Future Methods

Methods with the @future annotation must be


static methods, and can only return a void type

Typically used for:


Callouts to external Web services.
Operations need to run in their own thread
Isolate DML operations to prevent the
mixed DML error.

Future methods can’t be used in Visualforce


controllers.

Objects can’t be passed as arguments to


future methods.
Future method sample code block

The system collects all asynchronous calls


made after the startTest().

When stopTest() is executed, all these


collected asynchronous processes are then
run synchronously.
Batch Apex

Batch Apex is used to run large jobs (think


thousands or millions of records!) that would
exceed normal processing limits.

This functionality has two awesome


advantages:
Every transaction starts with a new set of
governor limits.
If one batch fails to process successfully,
all other successful batch transactions
aren’t rolled back.

It contains three methods:


start(), execute(), and finish()
Batch apex sample code block

It implements following interfaces including:


Database.Batchable
Database.Stateful
Database.AllowsCallouts
Queueable Apex

It is essentially a superset of future methods


with some extra features.

Additional benefits over future method:


1. Queueable class can contain member
variables of non-primitive data types, such as
sObjects or custom Apex types.

2. It returns the ID of the AsyncApexJob record.


You can use this ID to identify your job and
monitor its progress.

3. You can chain one job to another job by


starting a second job from a running job.
Queueable apex sample code block

Best practices:

The execution of a queued job counts once


against the shared limit for asynchronous
Apex method executions.

You can add up to 50 jobs to the queue with


System.enqueueJob in a single transaction.
Apex Scheduler

The Apex Scheduler lets you delay execution


so that you can run Apex classes at a
specified time.

This is ideal for daily or weekly maintenance


tasks using Batch Apex.

Schedule class sample code block


Monitoring Asynchronous Jobs

You can monitor the status of all jobs in the


Salesforce user interface.

From Setup -> enter Jobs in the Quick Find box


-> select Apex Jobs.
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