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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By : Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant
Book Image

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By: Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

Overview of this book

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills. This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips. By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with MuleSoft
7
Part 2: A Deep Dive into MuleSoft
14
Part 3: Integration with Salesforce and Other Connectors

Generating a flow using APIkit Router

APIkit Router generates the whole flow based on the API specification file. It receives the incoming request, validates it, and routes the incoming request to the flow.

If you have already created an API specification (or an API design) and you want to start developing the actual implementation, you can import your API specification into Anypoint Studio and APIkit will create the basic flows and error handling for your API based on the specification. By doing this, we need not create all the code from scratch.

It is always best practice to create the API specification first in API Designer. Once it is created, we can start building the Mule application with that API specification. This is called an API design-first approach. There is also the code-first approach, which mandates having an API specification but does not emphasize starting with the API design (specification) first. In the API design-first approach, the developer can consume...