This document discusses building and exposing REST APIs in Salesforce. It provides an overview of REST fundamentals and how Salesforce implements REST. It explains why Apex REST is needed and how to build RESTful Apex services using annotations. The document also covers considerations for Apex REST and includes resources and Trailhead modules for further learning. It concludes with a Q&A section.

1. Path to Code
Begin Your Salesforce Coding Adventure

2. Episode 11
Building & Exposing REST APIs in Salesforce

3. • Enterprise Solutions Architect
• Global Community Speaker
Jigar Shah
@jigarshah189

4. Agenda
• REST Fundamentals
• Salesforce REST
• Need for Apex REST
• Understanding REST Annotations
• Building & Exposing Apex REST Services
• Apex REST Considerations
• Q&A

5. Some Housekeeping Rules…
• Mute your mic
• Keep adding questions in Zoom Q&A Window
• No questions are silly!
• Questions will be answered in the last 15 mins of this session

6. Decoding REST Fundamentals
Service
Provider
(Salesforce)
Service
Consumer
HTTP / HTTPS
1. Header
2. Body
1. Who?
2. What?
3. Where?
4. How?
REST
URI
1
2
4
3

7. Salesforce REST
Salesforce’s API first approach exposes features as RESTful Services also
termed as Salesforce REST
/services/data/v44.0/limits
/services/data/v44.0/sobjects/query?q=select+id+from+Account
/services/data/v44.0/sobjects/Account/0011U00000BgGjuQAF?fields=id,name
,type

8. Demo 1
Consuming Salesforce REST

9. Need for Apex REST
• Perform complex processing logic
• Return custom responses
• Bulk record manipulation
• Processing related objects

10. Understanding REST Annotations

11. Building Apex RESTful Services
https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/apexrest/<RestUrlMapping>

12. Demo 2
Building RESTful Services in Apex

13. Apex REST Considerations
• What can Apex REST receive and give back?
• Security context of Apex REST Services
• Including REST Services within Managed Packages

14. Resources
 Exposing Apex Classes as REST Web Services
 REST Controller Frameworks (Blog)
 Json2Apex
 cURL Download

15. Trailhead Modules
Lightning Platform API Basics Apex Web Services

16. Q & A

17. Thank You

18. Subscribe