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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

Error handling

Error-handling components form an important part of Mule’s exception-handling strategy. Whenever an error occurs, or an exception is raised, the flow’s execution control is moved to the Error Handling scope and the error-handling strategy (On Error Continue or On Error Propagate is executed) is implemented (see Figure 4.22):

Figure 4.22 – Mule’s error-handling mechanism

Figure 4.22 shows us the Mule’s error-handling mechanism. Let us now learn about different Error Handling scopes, starting with On Error Continue. Apart from On Error Continue, there is On Error Propagate, Raise Error, and Error Handler.

On Error Continue

If an error occurs and the On Error Continue scope is defined in the Error Handling section, then the flow’s normal execution is stopped and the processors inside the On Error Continue scope are executed.

A success response is returned in the case of On Error Continue.

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