Lightning Components Developer Guide
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Returning Data from an Apex Server-Side Controller
Return results from a server-side controller to a client-side controller using the
return statement. Results data must be serializable
into JSON format.
Return data types can be any of the following.
- Simple—String, Integer, and so on. See Basic Types for details.
- sObject—standard and custom sObjects are both supported. See Standard and Custom Object Types.
- Apex—an instance of an Apex class. (Most often a custom class.) See Custom Apex Class Types.
- Collection—a collection of any of the other types. See Collection Types.
Returning Apex Objects
Here’s an example of a controller that returns a collection of
custom Apex
objects.
1public with sharing class SimpleAccountController {
2
3 @AuraEnabled
4 public static List<SimpleAccount> getAccounts() {
5
6 // Perform isAccessible() check here
7
8 // SimpleAccount is a simple "wrapper" Apex class for transport
9 List<SimpleAccount> simpleAccounts = new List<SimpleAccount>();
10
11 List<Account> accounts = [SELECT Id, Name, Phone FROM Account LIMIT 5];
12 for (Account acct : accounts) {
13 simpleAccounts.add(new SimpleAccount(acct.Id, acct.Name, acct.Phone));
14 }
15
16 return simpleAccounts;
17 }
18}When an instance of an Apex class is returned from a server-side action, the instance is serialized to JSON by the framework. Only the values of public instance properties and methods annotated with @AuraEnabled are serialized and returned.
For example, here’s a simple “wrapper” Apex class that contains a few details for an
account record. This class is used to package a few details of an account record in a
serializable format.
1public class SimpleAccount {
2
3 @AuraEnabled public String Id { get; set; }
4 @AuraEnabled public String Name { get; set; }
5 public String Phone { get; set; }
6
7 // Trivial constructor, for server-side Apex -> client-side JavaScript
8 public SimpleAccount(String id, String name, String phone) {
9 this.Id = id;
10 this.Name = name;
11 this.Phone = phone;
12 }
13
14 // Default, no-arg constructor, for client-side -> server-side
15 public SimpleAccount() {}
16
17}