Lightning Aura 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. See Custom Apex Class Types. You can’t use an Apex inner class as a return value for an Apex method that's called by an Aura component.
- 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.
When an instance of an Apex class is returned from a server-side action, the framework serializes the return data into JSON format. Only the values of public instance properties and methods annotated with @AuraEnabled are serialized and returned.
These Apex data types are serialized from @AuraEnabled properties and methods. They are supported as Aura component attributes.
- Primitive types except for BLOB
- Objects
- sObjects
- Lists and Maps if they hold elements of a supported type
For example, here’s a 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.