— Before proceeding I’d suggest you read Part 1 and Part 2 of this article. — In this age of integration, you need an edge. The DBSync Swagger API connector is it. If you have a Swagger compliant JSON description of your app’s RESTful API, you can use this tool to create a connector to […]
Swagger Examined (Part 2): The DBSync’s Swagger API
— If you haven’t already read Part 1 of this article, I strongly recommend you to do it first. — Have you ever run into difficulty when connecting RESTful services? You are not alone. Many junior developers, as well as seasoned professionals have struggled with this problem. The great news is that the unique challenges […]
Swagger Examined (Part 1): How to document an API with incredible simplicity
Do you know what Swagger’s main characteristic is? It is its incredible simplicity: its capacity to easily and utterly describe how an API works, where it resides, what inputs it needs, and what results it produces. It is this simplicity that helped Swagger make itself one of the most successful developmental tools available on the […]
Discover Real Time Integration with DBSync’s Salesforce Streaming Connector
Have you ever felt the power of speed? That is exactly what one new Salesforce Streaming Connector brings you: real time, made real. The connector is based on Salesforce Streaming API, which makes use of a technology that transmits data in a practically continuous manner, without waiting for the whole data set to arrive, enabling you […]
Salesforce Replication – Now There is an API for it!
It’s here now …. It’s been sometime that our customers have been asking us for an API to operate our DBSync Cloud Replication for Salesforce. While we had a Java and a SOAP based call, it was missing a ReST interface. Beginning of this year we worked on a platform for building and exposing API’s […]
How to download attachments outside Salesforce
Many times we were asked from various social media platform including Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest but not limited to tech forums like Salesforce Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow for a Salesforce app to download attachments. I remember one question from a user where he posted asking: “Is there a possibility of getting associated attachments of opportunities, quotes […]
Speed up connectors’ turnaround with Swagger Specification
What is Swagger Swagger is the world’s most popular and largest framework of API’s developer tools for the open API specification, enabling development across the entire API lifecycle, from design and documentation to test and deployment. How Swagger Specifications Have Revolutionized API Ecosystem In the developer community, with the growing popularity of RESTFUL web services […]
Best Practices For API Testing
What is API Testing ? API Testing is entirely different from GUI testing and mainly concentrates on the business logic layer of the software architecture. This testing won’t concentrate on the look and feel of the application . API Testing requires an application to interact with API. In order to test an API, you will […]
How to Incorporate a SOAP Service in ApiCode
“ApiCode” is a framework which allows developers to plugin custom JAVA code. It can effectively integrate with any external system by implementing the necessary “ApiCode” interface exposed for integration with DBSync platform. Link for ApiCode ‘helloworld‘ example. Since ApiCode is a simple java application, implementing SOAP services in ApiCode is not any different. It is as same […]
SOAP vs ReST API: A Comparative Analysis
Generally, in technology, we face the dilemma of choosing between two or more services. It is a similar situation when we want to access web services. If we have to make a choice between SOAP and ReST APIs, we certainly get torn between the two options. On the face of things, it is an investment, […]
