What is Utility Method in Salesforce Apex?

Hi Aditya,

Utility classes are just like helper classes that consist of reusable(when required many times )  methods.
From triggers, we can call methods in public classes. This helps to reduce code in the trigger and make it more organized.
If we have a trigger on the opportunity which does date format and assign it to a field value, it can be written as follows with the help of utility class

trigger updateOpp on Opportunity (before insert){
 for(Opportunity  opp : Trigger.new){
 opp.formattedDate__c = TriggerHelper.formatDate(opp.someDate__c);
}
}

//Utility Class
Public Class TriggerHelper{
Public Static string formatDate(Date inputDate){
   return inputDate.format();
}
}

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