NAME

WWW::SFDC - Wrappers around the Salesforce.com APIs.

VERSION

version 0.33

SYNOPSIS

WWW::SFDC provides a set of packages which you can use to build useful interactions with Salesforce.com's many APIs. Initially it was intended for the construction of powerful and flexible deployment tools.

    use WWW::SFDC;

    my $session = WWW::SFDC->new(
      username => $username,
      password => $password,
      url => url,
      apiVersion => apiversion
    );

    # This will do queryMore until it's got everything
    my @queryResult = $session->query('SELECT Id FROM Account');

METHODS

call

isSandbox

Returns 1 if the org associated with the given credentials are a sandbox. Use to decide whether to sanitise metadata or similar.

EXPERIMENTAL

This module is quite unstable, as it's early in its development cycle. I'm trying to avoid breaking too much, but until it hits 1.0, there is a risk of breakage.

CONTENTS

WWW::SFDC

Provides the lowest-level interaction with SOAP::Lite. Handles the SessionID and renews it when necessary.

WWW::SFDC::Constants

Retrieves and caches the metadata objects as returned by DescribeMetadata for use when trying to interact with the filesystem etc.

WWW::SFDC::Manifest

Stores and manipulates lists of metadata for retrieving and deploying to and from Salesforce.com.

WWW::SFDC::Metadata

Wraps the Metadata API.

WWW::SFDC::Partner

Wraps the Partner API.

WWW::SFDC::Tooling

Wraps the Tooling API.

WWW::SFDC::Zip

Provides utilities for creating and extracting base-64 encoded zip files for Salesforce.com retrievals and deployments.

METADATA API EXAMPLES

The following provides a starting point for a simple retrieval tool. Notice that after the initial setup of WWW::SFDC the login credentials are cached. In this example, you'd use _retrieveTimeMetadataChanges to remove files you didn't want to track, change sandbox outbound message endpoints to production, or similar.

Notice that I've tried to keep the manifest interface as fluent as possible - every method which doesn't have an obvious return value returns $self.

    package ExampleRetrieval;

    use WWW::SFDC;
    use WWW::SFDC::Manifest;
    use WWW::SFDC::Zip qw'unzip';

    my ($password, $username, $url, $apiVersion, $package);

    sub _retrieveTimeMetadataChanges {
      my ($path, $content) = @_;
      return $content;
    }

    my $client = WWW::SFDC->new(
      password  => $password,
      username  => $username,
      url       => $url
    );

    my $manifest = WWW::SFDC::Manifest->new(
            constants => $client->Constants,
            apiVersion => $apiVersion
      )
      ->readFromFile($package)
      ->add(
        $session->Metadata->listMetadata(
            {type => 'Document', folder => 'Apps'},
            {type => 'Document', folder => 'Developer_Documents'},
            {type => 'EmailTemplate', folder => 'Asset'},
            {type => 'ApexClass'}
          )
      );

    unzip
      'src/',
      $session->Metadata->retrieveMetadata($manifest->manifest()),
      \&_retrieveTimeMetadataChanges;

Here's a similar example for deployments. You'll want to construct @filesToDeploy and $deployOptions context-sensitively!

    package ExampleDeployment;

    use WWW::SFDC;
    use WWW::SFDC::Manifest;
    use WWW::SFDC::Zip qw'makezip';


    my $client = WWW::SFDC->new(
      password  => $password,
      username  => $username,
      url       => $url
    );

    my $manifest = WWW::SFDC::Manifest
      ->new(constants => $client->Constants)
      ->addList(@filesToDeploy)
      ->writeToFile('src/package.xml');

    my $zip = makezip
      'src',
      $manifest->getFileList(),
      'package.xml';

    my $deployOptions = {
       singlePackage => 'true',
       rollbackOnError => 'true',
       checkOnly => 'true'
    };

    $client->Metadata->deployMetadata($zip, $deployOptions);

PARTNER API EXAMPLE

To unsanitise some users' email address and change their profiles on a new sandbox, you might do something like this:

    package ExampleUserSanitisation;

    use WWW::SFDC;
    use List::Util qw'first';

    my $client = WWW::SFDC->new(
      username => $username,
      password => $password,
      url => $url
    );

    my @users = (
      {User => alexander.brett, Email => alex@example.com, Profile => $profileId},
      {User => another.user, Email => a.n.other@example.com, Profile => $profileId},
    );

    $client->Partner->update(
      map {
        my $row = $_;
        my $original = first {$row->{Username} =~ /$$_{User}/} @users;
        +{
           Id => $row->{Id},
           ProfileId => $original->{Profile},
           Email => $original->{Email},
        }
      } $client->Partner->query(
          "SELECT Id, Username FROM User WHERE "
          . (join " OR ", map {"Username LIKE '%$_%'"} map {$_->{User}} @inputUsers)
        )
    );

SEE ALSO

App::SFDC

App::SFDC uses WWW::SFDC to provide a command-line application for interacting with Salesforce.com

ALTERNATIVES

Both of these modules offer more straightforward, comprehensive and mature wrappers around the Partner API than this module does at the moment. If all of your requirements can be fulfilled by that, you may be better off using them.

This module is designed for use in deployment applications, or when you want to juggle multiple APIs to provide complicated functionality.

WWW::Salesforce

Salesforce

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests at https://github.com/alexander-brett/WWW-SFDC/issues.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc WWW::SFDC
    perldoc WWW::SFDC::Metadata
    ...

You can also look for information at https://github.com/alexander-brett/WWW-SFDC

AUTHOR

Alexander Brett <alexander.brett@sophos.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2015 by Sophos Limited.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The MIT (X11) License

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.

cpanm WWW::SFDC

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::SFDC