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

The Chatter API became the Connect API in Summer '20 https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/summer20/release-notes/rn_chatter_api.htm

• 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. When you exceed the rate limit, all Connect REST API resources return a 503 Service Unavailable error code.

• 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