apex connector for lightning connect: make anything a salesforce object

Apex Connector for Lightning Connect: Make Anything a Salesforce object

 Agustina García Peralta  Principal Developer on Platform Strategy  [email protected]  @agarciaodeian  

Agustina García Peralta Principal Developer, Platform Strategy

FinancialForce.com

@agarciaodeian

About

GREAT ALONE. BETTER TOGETHER.  Native to Salesforce1™ Platform since 2009

 Investors include Salesforce Ventures

 650+ employees, San Francisco based

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Agenda •  What is Apex Connector

•  What is Lightning Connect à Demo

•  Apex Connector for Lightning Connect – All in Apex

•  Use Cases & Demos

•  Limitations

•  Take away

•  Q&A

•  What is Apex Connector? It is a new Framework

•  Where can we use it? Lightning Connect

What is Apex Connector?

All in Apex

•  Lightning Group feature

•  Platform Connect, External Data Source, External Objects

•  GA à Winter ‘15

•  Link an External repository with your Salesforce organization

•  It is not an ETL (Extract – Transform – Load)

•  Data Loader, JitterBit Data Loader

What is Lightning Connect?

Use Case – For Dreaming Store

In the seventies a store opened in my neighborhood

At the beginning, it only sold

But after some time, it started selling ,

And nowadays also


was done in paper

But the latest owner moved to

and

•  Implementing your own OData API?

•  Why? When we have the Apex Connector API?

•  If teh information is not exposed via HTTP API’s or is more complex to process

•  You can use Java or another language to implement the ODATA API to expose any static an/or dynamic information you like!

http://www.odata.org http://odata4j.org

How is it developed?

How is it developed?

•  Apex Connector Framework

•  GA à Summer ‘15

•  Framework

•  All in Apex!!

•  How to use it?

•  Class1 à Extends DataSource.Provider

•  Class2 à Extends DataSource.Connection

Apex Connector for Lightning Connect

Use Case – Hello World

Hello World – Connector Class It can be global

Hello World – Connector Class

Hello World – Connector Class Open a single record

Open List View

Do I need any filter?

Hello World – Connector Class

Hello World – Provider Class

It can be global

Hello World – External Data Source

Hello World – External Object

For Dreaming Store – Provider Class

For Dreaming Store – Connector Class

For Dreaming Store – Read Google sheet

For Dreaming Store – Unit Test

Add a filter

•  Allow you to read information on your org and show as external object

•  Create a connection to another org

Apex Connector – Anything else?

•  Fields

•  Double à value lose precision beyond 10 significant digits

•  String à length is greater than 255, field is mapped to a long text area field

•  Doesn’t provide Master – Detail

•  Workaround with Indirect Lookup and External Lookup

•  Subject to same limits

•  Apex Governor limits

•  Apex Callouts aren’t allow after DML à soft limit

Apex Connector - Limits

•  Limits

•  100 external objects per org

•  Doesn’t support Master – Detail

•  Workaround with Indirect Lookup and External Lookup

•  Read Only à for now J (safe harbor)

•  Callouts à soft limit can be increased

•  Customizations à usual limitations like governor limits

Lightning Connect - Limits

•  Lightning Connect allows your to link information of an external repository to your org

•  How to create the connection?

•  OData provider

•  Create your own one à OData, Java …

•  Apex Connector Framework !! – All in Apex

•  A Provider class

•  A Connection class

•  Unit Tests

•  External Objects work as Custom one

•  Create buttons and code behind the scene to use them

Take away as Developer

•  Configuration with #clicksnotcode

•  Real Time refresh

•  It doesn’t count against storage limit

Take away as End User

•  http://goo.gl/RQRu8y

•  http://goo.gl/f4G7Rd

•  http://goo.gl/Rtv4zw

Links and more

 Agustina García Peralta

 [email protected]

 @agarciaodeian

 www.agarciaodeian.com

 http://www.meetup.com/es/Spain-Salesforce-Developer-User-Group/

 HelloWorld Apex Connector code à https://goo.gl/VEEO0s

Thank you

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