Visual Studio Code: How to Enable Intellisense Support for Salesforce Apex Code in Visual Studio Code
I am sure we all
know how painful it could be writing code without Intellisense support for the
code editor. So it is really important to see how we can add this feature to
our favorite code editor Visual Studio Code.
In this blog, we
will look into the detailed steps of how to enable Intellisense support for
Salesforce metadata. Enabling this feature will increase the code writing
capability and accuracy exponentially for a developer.
Salesforce provide
intellisense support by implementing “Apex
Language Server” through Salesforce CLI. “Apex Language Server” is dependent on java as its prerequisite.
Lets’ start by
downloading and installing Java Runtime Engine that we can download from Java
Development Kit
Download Java Development Kit
Step-1: Download the JDK version as shown
Step-2: Once the download is complete, we can install the JDK by using Administrator privileges
Step-3: Click Next
Step-4: Keep defaults and click Next
Step-5: Wait till the installation files copied
Step-6: Keep defaults and click Next
Step-7: Wait till the installation completes
Step-8: Click Close to complete the installation
Configure User Settings in Visual Studio Code
Launch Visual Studio
Code and follow the below steps-
Step-1: Use shortcut “Ctrl + Shift + P” to launch the Command Palette
Step-2: Search for “User Settings”
Step-3: Run the command “Preferences: Open User Settings”
Inside the User
Settings follow the below Steps-
Step-1: Search for a User Property “Java: Home”
Step-2: Locate the property “Salesforcedx-vscode-apex > Java: Home”
Step-3: Specify the installation path of JRE folder, in my case it is “/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_231”
As soon as we are
done with the steps above we need to follow the steps below-
Step-1: Click on the output Tab in the terminal window
Step-2: Select “Apex Language Server” from Output down as shown, if you find message coming through that mean “Apex Language Server” is up and running
Now next thing to do
is to refresh sObject Definitions from Salesforce Dev Org or Sandbox to the
local Definitions cache
To refresh the sObjects
Definition we need to first close User Settings Window and use the shortcut “Ctrl + Shift + P” to launch the
Command Palette
Then follow the
following steps-
Step-1: Search for “SFDX: Refresh SObject Definitions” command
Step-2: Click “SFDX: Refresh SObject Definitions”
Step-3: Select what type of SObject Definitions you want to refresh, I would recommend selecting “All SObject” since this will be the most effective option to refresh the definition cache all at once for the complete Salesforce Org
Step-4: After you make the
selection, look for Output window in the terminal where we can see this Refresh
Process started successfully as shown
Step-5: After a short wait
you can look for the Output window again and if everything goes as expected you
will the process completed successfully with exit code 0. Exit Code 0 means no
errors encountered if it encountered any error the respective error code would
have returned.
That is all for the
configuration and now it is time to test if Intellisense is enabled as expected.
Lets’ create any
apex test code to see if we get Intellisense support, here I have added a
trigger as shown below-
We can see the Intellisense
support available.
Happy Coding.
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