You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Building OpenAPI-enabled APIs with Heroku

The Insights API is the core of the solution described in this chapter. It aggregates data from Heroku Postgres and the Salesforce org into one API response, providing data to the browser through web API calls made from the Insights LWC code, as described in the earlier sections. It is also intended to be a public-facing API. In this section, we will look at how this API is implemented and how it is documented. Providing a well-documented API is an essential part of any application, which is why Chapter 11, Providing Integration and Extensibility, is dedicated to the subject.

Having a consistent and shared way to describe APIs and the data they require and expose enables them to be more easily discovered and consumed, not only from multiple programming languages but also declarative tools. The OpenAPI (https://www.openapis.org) industry specification is used in this chapter as a well-recognized standard and one that Salesforce has also...