The document discusses building development tools using the Force.com Tooling API, highlighting its features and functionalities. It covers key objects, such as MetadataContainer and ApexClassMember, and demonstrates how to compile and debug Apex/Visualforce code asynchronously. Various tools and integrations, including MavensMate and the Metadata API, are mentioned as essential for effective development on the platform.

1. Building Your Own Development Tools With
the Force.com Tooling API
Doug Friedman
@realdoug
Featuring:
Joe Ferraro, CTO, Mavens Consulting
@joeferraro

2. About Joe

3. About Doug

4. Agenda
▪ Introduction to the Tooling API
▪ Key objects/features
▪ MavensMate demo

5. Metadata API
▪ SOAP Interface
▪ Eclipse Plugin
▪ Ant Migration Tool

6. The Tooling API:
A great “Alternative”
▪ Restforce Ruby Gem
▪ Command Line & cURL
▪ MavensMate
▪ Force.com Developer Console

7. How to Use
Works just like the Data API
▪ Oauth
▪ JSON
▪ REST/HTTP
▪ SOAP/XML

8. Metadata API & Tooling API Together
The Tooling API is best
used in conjunction with
the Metadata API

9. Key Tooling API Objects
▪ 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

10. Compiling Apex/Visualforce
Create
MetadataContain
er
Create
ApexClassMember
Add ApexClassMember to
ContainerAsyncRequest
Submit
ContainerAsyncRequest

11. More Key Tooling API Objects
▪ ApexCodeCoverage
• Queryable Apex unit test coverage statistics
▪ TraceFlag
• Console output / stack trace
• Easy debug log retrieval
▪ ApexLog
• Debug logs generated by TraceFlag definitions

12. Debugging Apex/Visualforce
Create
TraceFlag
Run Apex Code
Retrieve DebugLog from
Tooling endpoint

18. Doug Friedman
Speaker Name
@realdoug
CTO, Mavens Consulting,
@joeferraro