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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

Using the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio

So far, we have been learning how to use DataWeave to transform data and we’ve been focusing on the use of the online DataWeave Playground to try out these concepts without having to install anything. However, the playground is used only to learn or experiment. To use DataWeave in Mule applications, we’d have to use Anypoint Studio; specifically, the Transform Message component. Let’s explore this component in more detail.

Exploring the views

Go to Anypoint Studio and create a new Mule project. After you have it, drag and drop the Transform Message component from Mule Palette onto the canvas to create a new empty flow with Transform Message.

Figure 7.3: A flow with a Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio

If you double-click on the component in the flow, the component’s configuration view will appear at the bottom of the screen with the predefined view.

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