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Apex

Apex static code analysis

Unique rules to find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells in your APEX code

  • All rules 56
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  • Bug12
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    Impact
      Clean code attribute
        1. URLs of Salesforce pages should be relative, not absolute.

           Bug
        2. "getRecordTypeInfosByDeveloperName()" should be used instead of "getRecordTypeInfosByName()"

           Bug
        3. DML statements should not be used inside loops

           Bug
        4. Record IDs should not be hardcoded

           Bug
        5. Triggers should process records in bulk

           Bug
        6. All branches in a conditional structure should not have exactly the same implementation

           Bug
        7. Non-existent operators like "=+" should not be used

           Bug
        8. Related "if"/"else if" statements and "when" in a "switch" should not have the same condition

           Bug
        9. Identical expressions should not be used on both sides of a binary operator

           Bug
        10. All code should be reachable

           Bug
        11. Variables should not be self-assigned

           Bug
        12. Useless "if(true) {...}" and "if(false){...}" blocks should be removed

           Bug

        URLs of Salesforce pages should be relative, not absolute.

        intentionality - complete
        reliability
        Bug

          Why is this an issue?

          Using absolute URLs to Salesforce Pages is bug prone. Different sandboxes and production environments will have different instance names (like "na10", "na15" etc.). Code using absolute URLs will only work when it runs in the corresponding salesforce instances. It will break as soon as it is deployed in another one. Thus only relative URLs, i.e. without the domain and subdomain names, should be used when pointing to a salesforce page.

          This rule raises an issue when a string matches the regular expression:

          {noformat}

          (?<!\w)(login|test|(dns|test|[a-z]{1,2})\d++)\.(salesforce|force|visual\.force|content\.force)\.com(?!\w)

          {noformat}

          Noncompliant code example

          public PageReference testRedirect() {
              String strUrl ='https://na8.salesforce.com/TestVFPage?AcoountId=999'; // Noncompliant
              PageReference newUrl = new PageReference(strUrl);
              newURL.setRedirect(true);
              return newURL;
          }
          

          Compliant solution

          public PageReference testRedirect() {
              String strUrl = URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm() + '/TestVFPage?AcoountId=999';
              PageReference newUrl = new PageReference(strUrl);
              newURL.setRedirect(true);
              return newURL;
          }
          OR
          public PageReference testRedirect() {
              String strUrl = URL.getOrgDomainUrl().toExternalForm() + '/TestVFPage?AcoountId=999';
              PageReference newUrl = new PageReference(strUrl);
              newURL.setRedirect(true);
              return newURL;
          }
          
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