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SteveOrgSteveOrg 

Help with Apex trigger with Callout

Hi there, I created a trigger that would send an external post request when an opportunity stage was updated to "Closed Won" and for some reason my http request is not posting.  I was wondering if there is a mistake in my code.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here is the Class (I hardcoded the URL for now).

 

public class OpportunityUpdateURL {
public static void hitTheServer(Opportunity[] opp) {
for (Opportunity o:opp){
HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();
req.setEndpoint ('http://url.com/events?type=customer_won&advocate[email]=steve@influitive.com&advocate[name]=Steve%20Organ&params[Opportunity Amount]=1000');
req.setMethod ('POST');
}
}
}

 

 

Trigger:

 

trigger updateOpptyCustomerWons on Opportunity (after update) { 

    //make a set to hold opportunity ids that we need
    Set<Id> opptyIds = new Set<Id>();
    
    for(Opportunity o : trigger.new)
        {
        //check to see if stage field has been changed
        if(o.StageName != trigger.oldMap.get(o.Id).StageName){
            
            opptyIds.add(o.Id);
            
        }

       }
    
    if(!opptyIds.isEmpty()){
    
        //get any opptys that have been edited
        List<Opportunity> opptys = [SELECT Id,StageName FROM Opportunity WHERE StageName = 'Closed Won' AND Id IN :opptyIds];
        
        for(Opportunity o : opptys){
            Opportunity[] opp = Trigger.new;
            OpportunityUpdateURL.hitTheServer(opp);
            }
        
      
       
    }


}

 

I also added a remote site for my URL.

 

Thanks so much,

Steve

SteveOrgSteveOrg

Ok so there is an update.  After adding the following code to my class:

 


Http http = new Http();
HTTPResponse res = http.send(req);

 

I get the following error when I meet the condition for trigger to run the callout:

 

Developer script exception from XXXX : updateOpptyCustomerWons : updateOpptyCustomerWons: execution of AfterUpdate caused by: System.CalloutException: Callout from triggers are currently not supported. Class.OpportunityUpdateURL.hitTheServer: line 11, column 1 Trigger.updateOpptyCustomerWons: line 24, column 1

 

empucempuc

Hi Steve,

 

To solve Your problem You need to add the line below, just before the hitTheServer method:

 

@future (callout=true)

 

It will cause that external callout which is unsopprted on triggers will be processed asynchronously, just after the regular trigger transaction finishes.

 

 

Hope it will help ya.

 

Best regards