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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

Writing DataWeave scripts

Now that we understand the basics of the language, let’s get started on learning how to write DataWeave scripts. In this section, you’ll learn about operators, selectors, variables, functions, and scope and flow control. These will give you the basics to start transforming your data.

Using operators

If you come from a different programming language background, you probably already know what operators are – those characters that help you transform or compare data. Let’s take a look at the different types of operators in DataWeave and their purpose.

Mathematical operators

These operators transform two values into one. They are mostly used for numbers but they can also be used with other data types:

  • + Addition: This operator adds two values. It can be used to add date and time-related types and numbers or to append a new item to an array (i.e., 1 + 2).
  • - Subtraction: This operator subtracts two values. It can...