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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

Transformers

Transformers are the processors mainly responsible for enhancing or transforming the Mule event. They’re responsible for carrying out all the logical transformations. Let us learn about a few transformers.

Set Variable

You can configure a new variable in a Mule event with the help of the Set Variable component. To configure the variable, you need to assign a name and value to the variable (see Figure 4.38):

Figure 4.38 – The Set Variable component in Anypoint Studio

Figure 4.38 shows us the configuration of the Set Variable component. The next component is Remove Variable.

Remove Variable

This component helps you to remove an existing or default Mule variable from the Mule event.

To configure the Remove Variable component, you need to enter the name of the variable that needs to be removed from the Mule event (see Figure 4.39):

Figure 4.39 – The Remove Variable component in Anypoint Studio...