Force.com Apex Code Developer's Guide

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Get Feed Elements From a Feed
Get Feed Elements From Another User’s Feed
Get Community-Specific Feed Elements from a Feed
Post a Feed Element
Post a Feed Element with a Mention
Post a Feed Element with Existing Content
Post a Rich-Text Feed Element with Inline Image
Post a Feed Element with a New File (Binary) Attachment
Post a Batch of Feed Elements
Post a Batch of Feed Elements with New (Binary) Files
Define an Action Link and Post with a Feed Element
Define an Action Link in a Template and Post with a Feed Element
Edit a Feed Element
Edit a Question Title and Post
Like a Feed Element
Bookmark a Feed Element
Share a Feed Element
Share a Feed Element and Add a Comment
Post a Comment
Post a Comment with a Mention
Post a Comment with an Existing File
Post a Comment with a New File
Edit a Comment
Follow a Record
Unfollow a Record
Chatter in Apex Features
Using ConnectApi Input and Output Classes
Understanding Limits for ConnectApi Classes
Serializing and Deserializing ConnectApi Obejcts
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
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Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Lightning Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
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Post a Feed Element with Existing Content

This example calls the postFeedElement(communityId, feedElement, feedElementFileUpload) method to post a feed item with an file attachment. In this example, the file is existing content that has already been uploaded to Salesforce The post also includes text and a mention. 
1ConnectApi.FeedItemInput feedItemInput = new ConnectApi.FeedItemInput();
2ConnectApi.FeedElementCapabilitiesInput feedElementCapabilitiesInput = new ConnectApi.FeedElementCapabilitiesInput();
3ConnectApi.ContentCapabilityInput contentCapabilityInput = new ConnectApi.ContentCapabilityInput();
4ConnectApi.MentionSegmentInput mentionSegmentInput = new ConnectApi.MentionSegmentInput();
5ConnectApi.MessageBodyInput messageBodyInput = new ConnectApi.MessageBodyInput();
6ConnectApi.TextSegmentInput textSegmentInput = new ConnectApi.TextSegmentInput();
7
8// Define the FeedItemInput object to pass to postFeedElement
9feedItemInput.body = messageBodyInput;
10feedItemInput.capabilities = feedElementCapabilitiesInput;
11feedItemInput.subjectId = 'me';
12
13// The MessageBodyInput object holds the text and mention in the post
14messageBodyInput.messageSegments = new List<ConnectApi.MessageSegmentInput>();
15
16textSegmentInput.text = 'Would you please review this doc?';
17messageBodyInput.messageSegments.add(textSegmentInput);
18
19mentionSegmentInput.id = '005D00000016QxO';
20messageBodyInput.messageSegments.add(mentionSegmentInput);
21
22// The FeedElementCapabilitiesInput object holds the capabilities of the feed item.
23// For this feed item, we define a content capability to hold the file.
24feedElementCapabilitiesInput.content = contentCapabilityInput;
25contentCapabilityInput.contentDocumentId = '069D00000001pyS';
26
27// Post the feed item. 
28ConnectApi.FeedElement feedElement = ConnectApi.ChatterFeeds.postFeedElement(Network.getNetworkId(), feedItemInput, null);