Integrations with the Force.com Platform using Custom Apex REST Services

 Andy Boettcher  Chief Architect @ Demand Chain Systems / 3x Salesforce MVP  @andyboettcher  

Designing Apex REST services for cross-platform usability

Andy Boettcher Chief Architect, Demand Chain Systems

3x Salesforce MVP

Co-Leader, Minnesota Salesforce.com Developer Group

v  What you will be learning

v  Architecture

v  Request / Response inner classes

v  Apex REST class

v  Routing multiple actions without use of REST OPTIONS

v  Summary and recap

v  Q&A

What should you expect from this session? Overview

v  REST and JSON = standard

v  External systems do not need platform knowledge

v  Control of business process vs. raw API access

v  Automatic synchronization with object metadata

v  Synchronous processing

v  Context-appropriate responses

v  Quick and easy to implement

v  Why not just use standard API?

What are you blabbering about?  Why should we care?

Architectural Snapshot  How does this flow?

Code Sample #1 Inner classes, request/response

Code Sample #2 Apex REST handler and action routing

Solution Demo Watch the solution in action!

v  Integrate with REST-capable external systems

v  Business process focus vs. raw API

v  Future-proof

v  Extensible

v  Github.com/techman97

Summary and recap  Again, what are we learning?

Thank you