How to delete a Test Class WITHOUT using eclipse

Question

I cannot install Eclipse, even if I wanted to. It is not approved software for my org.

How can test classes be deleted from production, using deployments? There no 'active' checkbox when I am editing the classes in sandbox mode, so I can't just deactivate the test class, and i cant deploy a deleted class to prod... how the heck is this done?

I dont want to use ANT or special software. SF must have a native way to achieve this. And if not... then I am very disappointed in humanity.

Answer 1

You can do this with only the software that comes installed with Windows/Linux/Mac. These instructions will be for Windows.

Create a Folder

Make a folder on your desktop. You'll want this so you can keep your files in order.

Create package.xml

Open Notepad (Start > Accessories > Notepad). Copy the following text into the text editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <version>30.0</version>
</Package>

Save this file as package.xml within the folder you created. NOTE: You have to change "Save as type" to "All files (*.*)", or Notepad will "helpfully" add a ".txt" extension that we don't want.

Create destructiveChanges.xml

Create a new file in Notepad (File > New). Copy the following text into your text editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SomeTestClass</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <version>30.0</version>
</Package>

Change SomeTestClass to the class you want to delete.

Save this file in the folder you created as destructiveChanges.xml (note the capital C in "changes"). Again, make sure that you saved it as "All files (*.*)".

At this point, you have two files in your folder. Open the folder, select both XML files, right-click, and choose "Send To > Compressed Folder". The default name is fine.

You're all set up at this point. Now, you just need to deploy the file.

Go to http://workbench.developerforce.com/, login using your production credentials, then choose "Migration > Deploy", upload your file, and confirm the process.

See this article (not mine: http://carvingintheclouds.blogspot.com/2013/12/deploying-destructive-changes-using.html) for some pictures and nice cloud-like palettes.

Answer 2

Based on this post on tooling API:

http://intmist.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/force-com-tooling-api-create-apex-class-apex-trigger-dynamically-and-updatedelete-apex-trigger-apex-class-using-tooling-api-with-rest-api/

I tried deleting a class from my developer account and I was able to do it using workbench by just providing the class Id and using delete( Sys admin profile)

I am not sure if this would apply for your PRD org. Would be worth giving this a try.

Deleting a Apex Class:

// [Status=No Content, StatusCode=204] public void deleteApexClass() { HttpRequest req = createHttpRequest(endpoint+'/ApexClass/'+oid,'DELETE'); String responseJson = getResponse(req); // Store the result to do something }

Answer 3

Here is a guide to deleting a class using the Force.com Migration Tool which uses Ant.

https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Propagating_Destructive_Changes

Answer 4

You can delete classes via the Workbench but as all of you know this currently does not work in production environments as it is mandatory that you run all the tests when deleting a class (which is also why Rao's answer won't help). You can, however, do this via a SOAP call using some SOAP request builder.

You would have to send a CompileAndTestRequest and list the classes you want to delete under deleteClasses.

As far as I'm aware (but not quite sure) the Workbench also uses SOAP calls so in theory it could be changed to allow this as well.