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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned different ways to import a module or a function in DataWeave using the import directive. We listed some of the modules you can find in DataWeave with some of their functions so you can get a better idea of what is already available for you to use.

We learned how to use some of the most used core functions depending on the data type they’re used with. We also reviewed multi-type, numbers, strings, objects, and array functions that you can use to transform the different data types.

Finally, we learned how to use the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio. We explored the three views we can use depending on our needs or our personal preferences. We learned how to use Preview and sample data (metadata) to generate a sample output of our transformation. We also learned how to create and reuse custom modules within our Mule application.

In the next chapter, you’ll learn more about building Mule applications and applying best...