Salesforce APIs

• SOAP - see https://tddprojects.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=SF&title=SOAP%20vs%20REST&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=1310425107

• Note there are way more APIs than this but the exam is OLD.

Bulk API

• REST based

• Aysnchronous

• Version 1 (OLD) and Version 2

• Large Data Volumes

  • For Data Migrations

• Query, Insert, Update, Upsert and Delete

• Create a Job

  • Send data in batches

  • check status of batches

  • retrieve the result for each batch

  • Close the job

Chatter REST API / Connect API

• Chatter Feed

• Users

• Groups

• Followers

• Data is structured for rendering on websites and mobile devices.

• Returned information is localized to the user's time zone and language.

• Changed values that are tracked in a feed are returned as value-pair representations.

• Rate limiting for Chatter REST API is per user, per application, per hour. The rate limiting for SOAP API and REST API is by organization.

• If needed, extract an ID from the REST API and use it in requests to Chatter REST API.

Metadata API

• the metadata of the Org

Streaming API

• Pub / Sub model

• Subscribe to a channel

• No need for polling

• Broadcast changes

• Concurrent limits (No. of long running calls) and total limits

Email Service

• Process Contents, Headers and Attachments of Inbound Email

• Messaging.InboundEmailHandler