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Platform API overview

Samuel De RyckeSalesforce Developer at [email protected]@SamuelDeRycke

Platform Architecture

Where are APIs situated in the overal architecture, and what is their purpose ?

Gateways of communication, system/automated access to data and configuration. Exchange data with other systems in your company

SOAP API

SOAP/WSDL2 Versions:Enterprise: Strongly typed, Org specificPartner: Dynamic, Requires datamodel inspectionExtensive API, well suited for system integrations

https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/

Wsdl needs to be reloaded for new metadata versions, Partner version. Some more functionality than the REST API, oldest API.

All custom objects automatically exposed !

REST API

Access data over RESTXML or JSONLightweightBest suited for browser or mobile applications

https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/

Lightweight, Search-Fetch-View or Modify. Use it for user /interaction applications. Not well suited for many record processingAll custom objects automatically exposed !

Custom APIs

Apex codeSOAP or RESTXML, JSON or custom formatsSynchronousWrite your own API in Apex

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

As simple as making global classes with a few Annotations, no extra overhead. Platform does all the work.

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webService static SOAP

Custom APIs Use Case

Challenge: External mobile application needs to store multiple records in multiple objects in a transactional process.Issue: REST Api handles insert and update calls in separate requests per record

Solution: We wrote our own custom Apex REST endpoint to accept a custom datatype which was wrapper around the salesforce sObjects. Now we could handle the transactional process in Apex.

All or nothing/ rollback

Chatter REST API

RESTXML or JSONSynchronousAbstracted data modelChatter specific API to access the social collaboration part of force.com

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/chatterapi/

Users, groups, composite feed posts, followers and files. Abstracted data model -> logical data model. API similar to those of Twitter or Facebook.

BULK API

RESTXML or CSVAsynchronousProcess >1.000.000 records

https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_asynch/

Optimized for manipulating large sets of data. Batchese are processed asynchronously. SETUP > Monitor > JOBS > Bulk Data Load Jobs

Implemented in the salesforce dataloader

Analytics API

RESTJSONSynchronous & AsynchronousAccess the force.com reporting engine: configuration and data

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_analytics/index.htm

Access to report data as configured in the report builder. Use report data in custom objects. Custom visualizations. Automate reporting tasks, Filter on the fly.

Streaming API

JSONAsynchronousNear real-timeReceive push notifications when records are created or updated

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_streaming/

Publish/Subscribe model. Define pushtopics with SOQL queries. Subscribe and wait for push notifications. No more polling and wasting resources and API calls.Bayeux & CometD to maintain server connections for long periods of time.

Metadata API

SOAP/WSDLAccess the force.com configurationDeploy between orgs !

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/

Access organization configuration, deploy changes between environments, Continuous integration.Configuration backups

Tooling API

SOAP or RESTXML or JSONExposes developer features

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_tooling/index.htm

Code execution, test SOQL statements, Manage working version of Apex classes and Visualforce pages. Test code execution and code coverage results. Analyze Debug logs and Heap dumps.

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