Platform Events Developer Guide
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Event and Event Bus Properties in Test Context
Deliver Test Event Messages
Test Retried Event Messages
End-to-End Example Using a Process and a Flow
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Test Your Platform Event in Apex
Add Apex tests to test platform event subscribers.
Before you can package or deploy Apex code, including triggers, to production, it must have tests and sufficient code coverage. Add Apex tests to provide code coverage for your triggers.
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Event and Event Bus Properties in Test Context
In test context, event messages and the event bus have different properties. State information of events and subscribers is reset and is not persisted. -
Deliver Test Event Messages
Deliver test event messages after the Test.stopTest() statement. Alternatively, deliver test event messages at any time with the Test.getEventBus().deliver() method. -
Test Retried Event Messages
An Apex trigger can retry processing of an event message by throwing EventBus.RetryableException. In API version 43.0 and later, you can test retried event messages by calling Test.EventBus.deliver() and inspecting EventBusSubscriber fields.