Apex Developer Guide

Getting Started
Writing Apex
Ways to Invoke Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Chatter in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Communities
Email
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Connect Adapters
Salesforce Connect Custom Adapter
Writable External Objects
Get Started with the Apex Connector Framework
Key Concepts About the Apex Connector Framework
Considerations for the Apex Connector Framework
Apex Connector Framework Examples
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Force.com Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Visual Workflow
Integration and Apex Utilities
Finishing Touches
Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Salesforce Connect Custom Adapter

Connect to any data anywhere for a complete view of your business. Use the Apex Connector Framework to develop a custom adapter for Salesforce Connect.
Your users and the Force.com platform interact with the external data via external objects. For each of those interactions, Salesforce Connect invokes methods in the Apex classes that compose the custom adapter. Salesforce invokes the custom adapter’s Apex code each time that:
  • A user clicks an external object tab for a list view.
  • A user views a record detail page of an external object.
  • A user views a record detail page of a parent object that displays a related list of child external object records.
  • A user performs a Salesforce global search.
  • A user creates, edits, or deletes an external object record. (This doesn’t apply to the cross-org adapter.)
  • A user runs a report.
  • The preview loads in the report builder.
  • An external object is queried via flows, APIs, Apex, SOQL, or SOSL.
  • You validate or sync an external data source.