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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

Learning DataWeave

DataWeave is a very powerful programming language created by MuleSoft. It’s widely used in Mule applications to transform the data inside your integrations or APIs. It’s mostly used with the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio, but it is also used with other components such as Choice or For Each (inside the #[] syntax).

DataWeave keeps evolving because of its popularity. Earlier, you would only be able to explore DataWeave inside the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio, but now there are more products such as the Visual Studio Code (or VSCode) extension, the DataWeave command-line interface (CLI), DataWeave for Apex (from Salesforce), and the very popular DataWeave Playground (which we will use for this chapter).

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introducing DataWeave
  • Writing DataWeave scripts

This chapter is focused on getting you started with the very basics of the...