Salesforce Connector

This is an Arrow connector to Salesforce.

Installation

$ appc install connector/appc.salesforce

You need to set the following configuration:

• url URL to salesforce instance
• username Login username
• password Login password
• token Login token

Usage

Reference the connector in your model.

var Account = Arrow.createModel('Account',{
	fields: {
		Name: { type: String, required: true, validator: /[a-zA-Z]{3,}/ }
	},
	connector: 'appc.salesforce'
});

If you want to map a specific model to a specific sobject name, use metadata. For example, to map the account model to the sobject Account, set it such as:

var Account = Arrow.createModel('account',{
	fields: {
		Name: { type: String, required: false, validator: /[a-zA-Z]{3,}/ }
	},
	connector: 'appc.salesforce',
	metadata: {
		'appc.salesforce': {
			object: 'Account'
		}
	}
});

Authenticating Through Salesforce

You can pass authentication through this connector on to Salesforce by changing the configuration. To get started, set requireSessionLogin to true for the Salesforce connector:

module.exports = {
	connectors: {
		'appc.salesforce': {
			...
			requireSessionLogin: true
			...
		}
	}
};

This property allows you to configure whether or not anonymous requests can use your default account (specified in your configuration files) for connecting to Salesforce. Set this to "true" to require requests to specify their own credentials or their own session token (via the headers user, and pass, or accesstoken).

With it set to true, call any of the REST APIs on a Salesforce model, such as Account.findAll, and provide credentials via headers:

curl --header "user: sfUsername" --header "pass: sfPassword" --header "token: sfToken" http://localhost:8080/api/appc.salesforce/account

Note that you can also use the "loginurl" header here, which will override what was specified in the configuration.

The request will execute, and you will either get back an error if the login failed, or you will get the results of the findAll query. You will also get back the headers "accesstoken" and "instanceurl". For future requests, pass these headers back instead of the user, pass, and token headers. This allows us to re-use the session.

curl --header "accesstoken: theAccessToken" --header "instanceurl: theInstanceURL" http://localhost:8080/api/appc.salesforce/account

Development

This section is for individuals developing the Salesforce Connector and not intended for end-users.

npm install
node app.js

Running Unit Tests

Copy the following to local.js and update the login parameters with your own, then you can run the unit tests.

module.exports = {
	logLevel: 'error',
	connectors: {
		'appc.salesforce.1': {
			connector: 'appc.salesforce',
			requireSessionLogin: false,
			url: 'https://test.salesforce.com/',
			username: 'your_salesforce_username',
			password: 'your_salesforce_password',
			token: 'your_salesforce_token',
			schemaRefresh: 3.6e+6 * 24, // one day
			modelAutogen: true,
			generateModelsFromSchema: true,
			generateModels: [
				'Account',
				'Contract'
			]
		},
		'appc.salesforce.2': {
			connector: 'appc.salesforce',
			requireSessionLogin: false,
			url: 'https://test.salesforce.com/',
			username: 'your_salesforce_username',
			password: 'your_salesforce_password',
			token: 'your_salesforce_token',
			schemaRefresh: 3.6e+6 * 24, // one day
			modelAutogen: true,
			generateModelsFromSchema: true,
			generateModels: [
				'Account',
				'Contract'
			]
		}
	}
};

npm test

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