Salesforce Snippets for Salesforce (Apex) Development

Code snippets for Salesforce (Apex) for Vs Code editor. Additional useful code snippets not included in the Salesforce Extension Pack and improved syntax of some that are.

Installation

1. Launch VS Code Quick Open Ctrl-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-P (OSX)
2. paste ext install lcotter.salesforce-snippets and press enter.

or

1. Search for Salesforce Snippets in the extensions market place and install it.

Supported languages (file extensions)

• Apex (.cls)

Snippets

To use the snippets type part of a snippet and press Tab or Enter or, press ctrl+Space to activate instellisense.

Apex Snippets

Snippet	Description
foreach	For-each loop
formap	For loop for entries in a map
ifelse	if/else statement
ifnull	if statement null check
ifnotnull	if statement not null check
ter	x ? y : z
constructor	New constructor
newobj	New Object
field	New field
method	New method
staticmethod	New static method
setidsfromrecordlist	Set of Ids from List of records
mapfromrecordlist	Map from List of records
sobjecttype	SObjectType for SObject
describesobjectresult	DescribeSObjectResult for SObjectType
sobjectfield	SObjectField for SObject Field
describefieldresult	DescribeFieldResult for SObject Field
sysdebug	Debug Statement
sysassf	System.assert(false, message);
sysasseq	System.assertEquals(expected, actual);
sysassnull	System.assertEquals(null, actual);
sysassnotnull	System.assertNotEqual(null, actual);
testmethod	Test method