Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

What Is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Component Names
Create Aura Components in the Developer Console
Create Aura Components Using Salesforce CLI
Component Markup
Component Namespace
Component Bundles
Component IDs
HTML in Components
CSS in Components
Component Attributes
Supported aura:attribute Types
Basic Types
Function Type
Object Types
Standard and Custom Object Types
Collection Types
Custom Apex Class Types
Framework-Specific Types
Using Expressions
Component Composition
Component Body
Component Facets
Controlling Access
Using Object-Oriented Development
Best Practices for Conditional Markup
Aura Component Versioning for Managed Packages
Base Components with Minimum API Version Requirements
Validations for Aura Component Code
Using Labels
Localization
Working with Base Lightning Components
Supporting Accessibility
Writing Documentation for the Component Library
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Testing Components with Lightning Testing Service
Debugging
Performance
Reference
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Custom Apex Class Types

An attribute can have a type corresponding to an Apex class. For example, this is an attribute for a custom Color Apex class:

1<aura:attribute name="color" type="docSampleNamespace.Color" />
Component attribute types can be custom Apex classes, and the following standard Apex classes.
  • List
  • Map
To make use of values held in other Apex built-in classes, create a custom Apex class, and copy needed values from instances of the standard class into your custom class.

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.

The following Apex data types can be serialized from @AuraEnabled properties and methods.
  • Primitive types except for BLOB
  • Object, subject to limitations described above
  • sObject
  • Collections types (List and Map) when they hold elements of a supported type

Custom classes used for component attributes shouldn’t be inner classes or use inheritance. While these Apex language features might work in some situations, there are known issues, and their use is unsupported in all cases.

Note

Using Arrays

If an attribute can contain more than one element, use an array.

This aura:attribute tag shows the syntax for an array of Apex objects:

1<aura:attribute name="colorPalette" type="docSampleNamespace.Color[]" />