Tips and Tricks : Avoid $$ in ANT password

Today we faced weird issue. ANT throwing Invalid User Password although we know exactly what our password.We able to login directly into Salesforce site but we failed to login via ANT.

It delays our deployment process because we struggle to figure out why.

• Double check the password [Done]
• Reset the password[Done]
• Check proxy[Done]

Thankfully I found this tips : Password Issue in ANT . I suspect it may due to this

Property Expansion
When Ant encounters a construct ${some-text} the exact parsing semantics are subject to the configured property helper delegates.
$$ Expansion
In its default configuration Ant will expand the text $$ to a single $ and suppress the normal property expansion mechanism for the text immediately following it, i.e., $${key} expands to ${key} and not value even though a property named key was defined and had the value value. This can be used to escape literal $ characters and is useful in constructs that only look like property expansions or when you want to provide diagnostic output like in Read More...

Anyone has better explanation please comment.For this time being, it's better avoid $$ or more than two $ in password.

Summer 18 : Better way to retrieve RecordTypeId

Salesforce Summer ‘18 has added new method to get Developer Name for Record Types which give me such a huge relieve.

my sketch

Previously, we were only able to get RecordType using Id or Name. Usually in our code we always need to retrieve the Id but retrieving Id with Name (Label) using getRecordTypeInfosByName is not good idea as Name can be changed easily.

To solve the issue, we created one Global class to run SOQL just to retrieve ID, DeveloperName. It exposed our code to SOQL limit and we need to be careful with the design when we decided to use Static because the global class can be called by different method in the same transaction.

Now we can forget about that *tedious part*. I started to clean up my code to use Salesforce method instead of using SOQL to retrieve record type.

Caution : Update your class API version to the latest version to prevent error as this new method not recognized in old version.

Retrieve RecordType ID using DeveloperName

Id newRecordType = Schema.SObjectType.Opportunity.getRecordTypeInfosById().get(opportunityId).getDeveloperName();

Retrieve RecordType DeveloperName using ID

String recordType= Schema.SObjectType.Opportunity.getRecordTypeInfosByDeveloperName().get(recordTypeDeveloperName).getRecordTypeId();

Please update the underlined word above with correct value.

Reference

• Summer 18 Release Note
• RecordType class documentation
• How to get RecordType DeveloperName