Salesforce Developer Tutorial: How to use the Apex Safe Navigation Operator to Reduce Null Checks

Опубликовано: 28 Март 2026
на канале: Coding With The Force
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In this video we go over how to use the safe navigation operator to greatly reduce the amount of null checking that you need to do in your code base. This will end up saving you a bunch of time and code!

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Why bother using the safe navigation operator
1:44 - Demoing the safe navigation operator using SOQL
10:04 - Demoing the safe navigation operator using maps
18:10 - Outro

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