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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

Flow control

Flow control helps you to control the order of execution of a flow or subflow by routing the message to the same or different processors. Let us learn about the flow control components used in Mule. We will be exploring the following components in this section:

  • Choice
  • First Successful
  • Round Robin
  • Scatter-Gather

Let’s get started with the first one, Choice.

Choice

The Choice router helps you select the route based on the condition satisfied. It is similar to the if-else block or the switch block in common programming languages.

To configure a Choice router, just drag the component from the Mule palette. By default, it consists of two routes, namely, the one that satisfies the criteria, and the default route to take if the condition is not met. You can drag and drop any other processor from the Mule palette to build upon the route (see Figure 4.28):

Figure 4.28 – A Choice router in Anypoint Studio

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