Creating Apex Trigger #294
Description
Hi Andrew, @afawcett
I am trying to create an Apex Trigger dynamically using your fantastic wrapper, I am building a managed package for the AppExchange.
After looking everywhere, here are the suggestions I found:-
1- Create the Trigger statically. Not a solution in my case, since I may need different triggers on different objects with different events - based on user input.
2- Use Tooling API. I am reading comments that this is not going to work in Production Org, hence will not work through Managed packages like mine, and I cannot validate this yet.
Can I use Tooling API through Managed Package Code? It still sounds like a hard to implement solution.
3- Use Metadata API (with the Apex Wrapper here) to deploy Apex Triggers? I am still looking for examples on how to do that, but it sounds like an interesting solution if it uses the Apex Wrapper library here, as I am using this library everywhere.
Tip: I found references to your open source DLRS and I expect this class to have the required code:
https://github.com/SFDO-Community/declarative-lookup-rollup-summaries/blob/main/dlrs/main/classes/RollupController.cls
4- Use Metadata API to dynamically create Flows/Apex Actions. Knowing that my trigger execution code itself can be static, but not the trigger definition, so the Apex Action can be the same for all triggers/events. An out of the box idea I thought about, but I am afraid to go this path and hit any limitations.
I apologize for not adding links or code here (yet), but as I am uncovering the solution, I promise to post a working example :)