Learning DataWeave
DataWeave is a very powerful programming language created by MuleSoft. It’s widely used in Mule applications to transform the data inside your integrations or APIs. It’s mostly used with the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio, but it is also used with other components such as Choice or For Each (inside the #[]
syntax).
DataWeave keeps evolving because of its popularity. Earlier, you would only be able to explore DataWeave inside the Transform Message component in Anypoint Studio, but now there are more products such as the Visual Studio Code (or VSCode) extension, the DataWeave command-line interface (CLI), DataWeave for Apex (from Salesforce), and the very popular DataWeave Playground (which we will use for this chapter).
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Introducing DataWeave
- Writing DataWeave scripts
This chapter is focused on getting you started with the very basics of the...