Daniel Pocock created CAMEL-8269:
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Summary: camel-salesforce: support for Salesforce Apex API
Key: CAMEL-8269
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-8269
Project: Camel
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: camel-salesforce
Affects Versions: 2.14.1
Environment: n/a
Reporter: Daniel Pocock
Salesforce provides a service that they call the "Apex" API.
Using Apex, a developer can write a script and upload it into Salesforce.com
and have it executed in the server, similar to putting a stored procedure into
a database. The Apex language is very similar to Java and likely to be very
accessible to Camel developers.
Here is an example:
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_rest_code_sample_basic.htm
Notice that each method implementd in the Apex system can define new URLs for
handling REST requests. The URL, the format of input data and the format of
the return value are arbitrary and at the discretion of the developer. It is
not uncommon for developers to use SObjects as input or output and the existing
DTOs from the camel-salesforce component would be suitable for interaction with
Apex.
A typical use case for the Apex API is implementing the convertLead method for
REST. The Salesforce SOAP API provides a mechanism for developers to request
lead conversion. The Salesforce REST API does not have the convertLead()
method. The simplest and most common way to work around this limitation is to
implement convertLead() in Apex, here is an example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19663119/is-there-any-rest-service-available-in-saleforce-to-convert-leads-into-accounts
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