Using Apex to mimic semantic string versioning (to validate “increment only” logic to a text field that represents semantic version

Question

Hey versioning experts,

Has anyone used Apex to construct a semantic version bumper?

Im looking to implement an Apex-driven "versioning" concept to a custom app, functioning somewhat similar to versioning forms/validations in SFDC Packaging, but specific to salesforce Records, not Packages.

The idea is that records would have semantic versions like packages but stored in a custom text field, "SemVersion__c".
The user would be allowed to increment it using semantic versioning standards so that version strings are comparable (major minor patch qualifier etc.) and always-incrementing

Thanks for the collaboration!

Answer 1

One option would be to use the native Version class that Apex provides.

This will give you major, minor, and patch numbers.

Plus there is an existing compareTo(version) method.