Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running 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
Metadata
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Force.com Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Visual Workflow
Getting Flow Variables
Passing Data to a Flow Using the Process.Plugin Interface
Implementing the Process.Plugin Interface
Using the Process.PluginRequest Class
Using the Process.PluginResult Class
Using the Process.PluginDescribeResult Class
Process.Plugin Data Type Conversions
Sample Process.Plugin Implementation for Lead Conversion
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Language Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Process.Plugin Data Type Conversions

Understand how data types are converted between Apex and the values returned to the Process.Plugin. For example, text data in a flow converts to string data in Apex.

We recommend using the @InvocableMethod annotation instead of the Process.Plugin interface.

  • The interface doesn’t support Blob, Collection, sObject, and Time data types, and it doesn’t support bulk operations. Once you implement the interface on a class, the class can be referenced only from flows.
  • The annotation supports all data types and bulk operations. Once you implement the annotation on a class, the class can be referenced from flows, processes, and the Custom Invocable Actions REST API endpoint.

Tip

Flow Data Type Data Type
Number Decimal
Date Datetime/Date
DateTime Datetime/Date
Boolean Boolean and numeric with 1 or 0 values only
Text String