Passing Data between Organization(class) and Flow Using the Process.Plugin Interface(visual workflow)

Hi,

Here we are going to see how to pass data from flow to plugin(class) and how to pass data from plugin(class) to flow.

For this we need to implement the "process.plugin" interface as shown below.If we write a class which implements the "Process.Plugin" interface then automatically it will appear in the flow under  Apex Plugins in palette.Then we can use this plugin in anywhere of flow. The following class is a small example for to get values from from flow to class through input parameters and passing data from class to flow variables through output parameters.

// Flow class

global class flowChat implements Process.Plugin { 

// The main method to be implemented. The Flow calls this at runtime.

global Process.PluginResult invoke(Process.PluginRequest request) { 

        // Get the subject of the Chatter post from the flow

        String AccountName= (String) request.inputParameters.get('Name');

        String Phone= (String) request.inputParameters.get('Phone');

        

        // Use the Chatter APIs to post it to the current user's feed

         Account actobj=new Account();

         actobj.name=AccountName;

         actobj.phone=Phone;

         insert actobj;

        // return to Flow

        Map<String,Object> result = new Map<String,Object>();         

        result.put('AccountId','Account Id:'+actobj.id);//Setting value to output Parameter

        return new Process.PluginResult(result); 

    } 

    // Returns the describe information for the interface

    global Process.PluginDescribeResult describe() { 

        Process.PluginDescribeResult result = new Process.PluginDescribeResult(); 

        //by using the below Name,Tag of result we can change tag name and plugin name in flow

        //these are optional        

        result.Name = 'flowchatplugin';//it will appear as plugin name

        result.Tag ='chat';//it will appear as tag like data,logic in flow

        //if we do not specify the tag name will be Apex PLUG-INS and Name will be class Name

        result.inputParameters = new 

           List<Process.PluginDescribeResult.InputParameter>{ 

               new Process.PluginDescribeResult.InputParameter('Name', 

               Process.PluginDescribeResult.ParameterType.STRING, true) ,

               new Process.PluginDescribeResult.InputParameter('Phone', 

               Process.PluginDescribeResult.ParameterType.STRING, true) 

            }; 

        

        result.outputParameters = new 

           List<Process.PluginDescribeResult.OutputParameter>{

                 new Process.PluginDescribeResult.OutputParameter('AccountId', 

            Process.PluginDescribeResult.ParameterType.STRING)

            }; 

        return result; 

    }

}

When we implement the class as shown above then plugin will appear in the flow as shown below.

After getting this plugin we can drag and drop to right panel and pass values to input parameters as shown below

If we want to pass data from class to flow then we need to define output parameters as in the class above.

After that we can pass data from class to variable in flow as shown below.

After finishing all the things in flow  run flow now.

Now we can get Acccountid from class to flow as shown in below.