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Mel Lisau Help with Integrating the Rest API ?
I am new to the Rest API wihin Salesforce and have a few queries.
1) With the Rest API ,do i need to create a connected app within my org before I can connect and do all users use the same Secret Key ?
2) What is required to implement OAuth authentication and do i need too ?
3) With the Rest API ,can i still use the SOQL or is there a better feature for querying data ?
4) Can i query API endpoints and filter the response ?
5) Can i use the Rest Api to integrate data into Salesforce ?
Would one use the Rest API over Soap because SOAP requires downloading a WSDL file, Converting the WSDL files to regular classes and then invoking methods on those objects ?
Thanks
1) With the Rest API ,do i need to create a connected app within my org before I can connect and do all users use the same Secret Key ?
2) What is required to implement OAuth authentication and do i need too ?
3) With the Rest API ,can i still use the SOQL or is there a better feature for querying data ?
4) Can i query API endpoints and filter the response ?
5) Can i use the Rest Api to integrate data into Salesforce ?
Would one use the Rest API over Soap because SOAP requires downloading a WSDL file, Converting the WSDL files to regular classes and then invoking methods on those objects ?
Thanks
Answer to 1,3,4,5 is yes. REST Api is useful for small data volumn operations or mobile/web application integrations. SOAP Api is useful for more bigger data volumn integrations. Bulk Api for bulk data(Millions of records) operations.
Checkout which api to use (https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=sf.integrate_what_is_api.htm&type=5)for more details. Check out REST Api developer guide for details on how REST Api works.
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thanks for the reply. I will definitely read the link you sent. But at the moment Im using Soap, (requires a wsdl) . if its doing the job ,I just am trying to weigh out what the big advantage of moving to REST ?
One thing I can see from the outset is usig the JSON format .
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If integration works with 1000's of records i would recommand to keep using SOAP Api. if it is in 100's or below Rest Api could be a choice, to get over maintainenace overhead related with SOAP Wsdl. Wsdl do need upgrades when some object structures changes within Org or on salesforce platform, to use those features.
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Then what is the major advantage of using Rest over Soap ?
Is it the Rest Bulk API for millions of records that SOAP doesnt offer ?
I assume that the Rest is quicker han SOAP,so if I was toinsert lets says 1000 contact records into Salesforce and retrieve using REST and SOAP , would REST be significantly quicker ?
At the moment I have an app that integrates to Salesforce and allows the user to write SOQL queries. But usually the queries that the user writes are incorrect or syntacical errors.
I am wondering if using Rest API ,there is a beterway of writing queries, maybe by retrieving the Object and performing a filter.
Thanks