building your own development tools with the force.com tooling api
DESCRIPTION
Join us as we use the Tooling API to build a basic IDE for editing and compiling Apex Classes. We'll weigh in on existing applications that use the Tooling API, and look at what's new in Mavens Mate, a Force.com IDE plugin for Sublime Text. After this session, you'll be able to extend these open source tools or build your own.TRANSCRIPT
Building Your Own Development Tools With the Force.com Tooling API
Doug Friedman@realdoug
Featuring:Joe Ferraro, CTO, Mavens Consulting@joeferraro
About Joe
About Doug
Agenda▪ Introduction to the Tooling API▪ Key objects/features▪ MavensMate demo
Metadata API
▪ SOAP Interface▪ Eclipse Plugin▪ Ant Migration Tool
The Tooling API:A great “Alternative”
▪ Restforce Ruby Gem▪ Command Line & cURL▪ MavensMate▪ Force.com Developer Console
How to UseWorks just like the Data API
▪ Oauth▪ JSON▪ REST/HTTP▪ SOAP/XML
Metadata API & Tooling API Together
The Tooling API is best used in conjunction with the Metadata API
▪ MetadataContainer• A resource which holds the pieces of metadata in your project
▪ ApexClassMember, ApexPageMember, <any type>Member• Represents a working copy of your Apex/Visualforce metadata
▪ ContainerAsyncRequest• Compile Apex/Visualforce asynchronously
▪ SymbolTable• Represents Apex Class tokens• Assists in Code completion for IDEs
Key Tooling API Objects
Compiling Apex/Visualforce
Create MetadataContain
er
Create ApexClassMember
SubmitContainerAsyncRequest
Add ApexClassMember to ContainerAsyncRequest
▪ ApexCodeCoverage• Queryable Apex unit test coverage statistics
▪ TraceFlag• Console output / stack trace• Easy debug log retrieval
▪ ApexLog• Debug logs generated by TraceFlag definitions
More Key Tooling API Objects
Debugging Apex/Visualforce
Create TraceFlag
Run Apex Code Retrieve DebugLog from Tooling endpoint
Speaker Name
CTO, Mavens Consulting,@joeferraro
Doug Friedman
@realdoug