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Chris Walters 9Chris Walters 9 

Is it possible to create an AddressHandler ?

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We've several objects, both std and custom,  that contain  Address compound fields. I'd like to create an AddressHandler, similar to ContactHandler, to apply various corrections to an Address regardless of which object it is tied to. Is this possible? I can reference System.Address in my Apex but there are no setters to go with the getters (!???!) Or must I put  boilerplate into ContactHandler, AccountHandler, LeadHandler and all the other Handlers for objects with one or more Address compound field?  Surely there's a better way.

 
Chris Walters 9Chris Walters 9
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I can create 
public static void standardizeAddress( System.Address addressToFix) {
        System.debug('AddressHandler:standardizeAddress - entering');
        Boolean needToUpdate = False;
        
        if( countryCodeMap.containsKey( addressToFix.Country)) {
//          addressToFix.Country = countryCodeMap.get( addressToFix.Country);   <-- here
            needToUpdate = True;
        }
        if( addressToFix.Country == 'USA') {
            if( stateNameToCodeMap.containsKey( addressToFix.State)) {
//              addressToFix.State = stateNameToCodeMap( addressToFix.State);   <-- here
                needToUpdate = True;
            }
        }
        
        if( needToUpdate) {
//          update addressToFix;
        }
        
        System.debug('AddressHandler:standardizeAddress - exiting');
    }

where my ContactHandler.afterInsert() is calling this method
  
public void afterInsert(SObject so) {
        Contact contact = (Contact) so;
        AddressHandler.standardizeAddress( contact.MailingAddress);
        ...
now here (https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/2012/05/passing-parameters-by-reference-and-by-value-in-apex.html) it says Apex sObjects are pass-by-reference - great, that's the behavior I want. And here (https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/compound_fields_limitations.htm) it talks about compound-field uses and limitiations where there's an example of setting a specific field value . So this should be doable, I just can't seem to get the syntax right.

If I can't do an update on the compound field , I could change the function to return a boolean  then adjust afterInsert like so
  
public void afterInsert(SObject so) {
        Contact contact = (Contact) so;
        if( AddressHandler.standardizeAddress( contact.MailingAddress)) {
                update contact;
        }
        ...

Any ideas?