Being new to SalesForce Integration, I am trying to understand the capability of SalesForce to integrate with external RESTful service (WADL file) and execute to extract data to use in SalesForce UI functionality.
I understand that SalesForce is able to execute SOAP over HTTP (WSDL file) service to integrate but I see there is no solid documents online to explore whether SalesForce can also execute external WADL file.
Please advice me.
There's no built in feature to consume a WADL. You can however, just write your own Apex code to make restful callouts.
Apex Restful Callouts Trailhead
Invoking HTTP Callouts
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I find tons of articles explaining how to call rest apis from APEX - but I'm accessing salesforce from an integration system using the Salesforce REST API, and want to it the other way around.
ie -
I've found functionality (record merging) - that is not available from the rest API, but IS available from apex. Is there any way to run an apex statement or script from the rest API?
NOTE: I'm aware that the functionality also available from the SOAP api, but we really don't want to go near that for various reasons.
you want to REST API endpoints in APEX, so that you can call this endpoint from anywhere, Right? if so then you need to check this article.
After reading above article, you are able to create GET, POST, DELETE endpoint in your Salesforce Org and you can use this endpoints.
We are planning to use sabre SOAP api for booking
https://beta.developer.sabre.com/docs/soap_apis/air/book/book_air_segment
as its not available for REST. we are using react native to build our app and want to use above API. we had tried to integrate SOAP api but it doesn't work.
Is there any one out there who have used SOAP api to book the flight or any other SOAP api with react native? is there REST api available for booking the flight?
any information will be really helpful
thank you
When you want to integrate a SOAP web service ( or any other ) you should separate concerns to different application layer. To make an example my approach would by
Create a library that will be your simplified interface to the web service API, for example if the booking procedure is a subsequential call of remote services your library interface would be just $myClient->book($request).
Internally, the library will do all the calls that are necessary to make the job done.
Create you application backend and have that library as dependency: in the application layer you will store in your database all the data you need, manage log, exceptions etc.
This can be you JSON/REST API.
Frontend application: this will just render the data given by your application backend, the data supplied by your backend will be as simple as possible, ready to be rendered in a fancy layout.
For the frontend you can use any technology you like, Angular, React, Cordova etc..
Hope it helps
Cheers
I am going thru the documentation and examples related to calling REST APIs for SugarCRM using Chrome REST client or PostMan but most of the examples are PHP and I am not finding a good way to find a proper request and other parameters to be mentioned so that I can get the successful response from the API. I was trying get_entry_list. Can someone please help by providing a working REST API request for this API which I can run on REST client or postman?
I also would like to know if I want to build a SugarCRM connector for my application, which set of APIs I should use? Should I go with REST or SOAP and any supporting arguments to choose one over another?
Thanks
Can anyone tell me the difference between the REST API and APEX REST.I am new to REST concept.I am very much confused about them.
The REST API (Force.com REST API) is the generic API provided by Salesforce. On the other hand, the Apex REST API is an API written by yourself in apex to provide custom methods.
The Force.com REST API is great for things such as CRUD operations. You should write a custom Apex REST API when you want to perform more complicated actions.
REST -> architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems.
APREX REST -> Apex REST enables you to implement custom Web services in Apex and expose them through the REST architecture.
Second is used to build RESTful web services
Use the REST API most of the time. You can access your records and update them like you'd expect. But if you need to do something special, like update two records, and only have the changes saved if both updates were successful, then look at Apex REST, where you can customize what your API call does as much as you like.
More details in this interview: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/tech-pubs/2011/10/salesforce-apis-what-they-are-when-to-use-them.html
Any help would be appreciated.
I am trying to have SalesForce push out account information to a billing system (external) via a SOAP API. The billing system doesn't have a WSDL that I can generate an Apex Class with and I have been scouring the net for information on how to create a class without a WSDL.
Q: Is it possible to interact with an external SOAP without a WSDL? And if it is possible can someone point me to some examples?
Thanks!!
--Nick
You have a few choices:
Reverse engineer a WSDL from the billing system.
Skip the WSDL and generate your own stub classes. See this part of the docs for an example.
Generate your own SOAP messages and use the HTTP classes to invoke