Run Script After Sandbox Creation and Refresh

With the Spring ’16 release, there is new functionality where we can set a script to run after refreshing a sandbox. In the documentation it gives an example where it prints the three context variables to a debug log.

Not being sure where that debug log would be stored or how to retrieve it, I created a similar class (api v36.0) that I applied to a developer sandbox (Spring ’16, as is prod.):

global class Sandbox_Refresh implements SandboxPostCopy {
  global void runApexClass(SandboxContext context) {
      insert new Account(name = 'Org Id: ' + context.organizationId() + ' Sandbox Id: ' + context.sandboxId() + ' Sandbox Name: ' + context.sandboxName());
    }
}

After creating and also later when refreshing the sandbox, there was no account created, even though running very similar code as anonymous Apex right afterwards worked just fine:

insert new Account(name='test');

I also tried adding a test class, which ran fine in both the sandbox and production. Even when the sandbox post copy code had 100% test coverage, I still wasn’t able to see the account created in the sandbox after a refresh.

@isTest
public class Test_Sandbox_Refresh{
    public static @isTest void runTest(){
        Sandbox_Refresh ClassInstance = new Sandbox_Refresh();
        Test.testSandboxPostCopyScript(ClassInstance, UserInfo.getOrganizationId(), '00Dp00000000hjM', 'sandbox2');
    }
}

Now I’m not sure why the Sandbox Refresh script didn’t work, or where to find a log to trouble-shoot the issue. Has anyone gotten a Sandbox Refresh script to run successfully, and if so, do you have any tips for trouble-shooting when it doesn’t work properly?

Answer

Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : martin , Answer Author : Mark Pond