Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Apex Cursors
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Use Cases for the CommercePayments Namespace
Connect in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Data 360 In Apex
DataWeave in Apex
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Experience Cloud Sites
Email
External Services
Flows
Formula Evaluation in Apex
Metadata
Permission Set Groups
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Apex Considerations for Salesforce Connect External Objects
Writable External Objects
External Change Data Capture Packaging and Testing
Mock SOQL Tests for External Objects
Get Started with the Apex Connector Framework
Key Concepts About the Apex Connector Framework
Considerations for the Apex Connector Framework
Apex Connector Framework Examples
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

External Change Data Capture Packaging and Testing

You can distribute External Change Data Capture components in managed packages, including a framework for testing your Apex triggers. Special behaviors and limitations apply to packaging and package installation.
  • Include External Change Data Tracking components in a managed package by selecting your test from the Apex Class Component Type list. The trigger, test, external data source, external object, and other related assets are brought into the package for distribution.
  • Certificates aren’t packageable. If you package an external data source that specifies a certificate, make sure that the subscriber org has a valid certificate with the same name.

To help you test your External Change Data Capture–triggered Apex classes, here is a unit test code example of a trigger reacting to a simulated external change.

Example Trigger
Apex Test