Session run during Dreamforce'15. Realted to how to use Apex Connector Framework

1. Apex Connector for Lightning Connect:
Make Anything a Salesforce object
Agustina García Peralta
Principal Developer on Platform Strategy
agarcia@financialforce.com
@agarciaodeian

2. Agustina García Peralta
Principal Developer, Platform Strategy
FinancialForce.com
@agarciaodeian

3. About
GREAT ALONE. BETTER TOGETHER.
• Native to Salesforce App Cloud since 2009
• Investors include Salesforce Ventures
• Customers in 27 countries
• 650+ employees, San Francisco based
• Dreamforce.FinancialForce.com

4. Agenda
• What is Apex Connector
• What is Lightning Connect  Demo
• Apex Connector for Lightning Connect – All in Apex
• Use Cases & Demos
• Limitations
• Take away
• Q&A

5. • What is Apex Connector? It is a new Framework
• Where can we use it? Lightning Connect
What is Apex Connector?
All in Apex

6. • Lightning Group feature
• Platform Connect, External Data Source, External Objects
• GA  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?

7. 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

8. Use Case – For Dreaming Store
was done in paper
But the latest owner moved to and

9. Use Case – For Dreaming Store

10. Demo

11. How is it developed?

12. How is it developed?

13. • Apex Connector Framework
• GA  Summer ‘15
• Framework
• All in Apex!!
• How to use it?
• Class1  Extends DataSource.Provider
• Class2  Extends DataSource.Connection
Apex Connector for Lightning Connect

14. Use Case – Hello World

15. Hello World – Connector Class
It can be
global

16. Hello World – Connector Class

17. Hello World – Connector Class Open a single
record
Open List View Do I need any filter?

18. Hello World – Connector Class

19. Hello World – Provider Class
It can be
global

20. Demo

21. Hello World – External Data Source

22. Hello World – External Object

23. Use Case – For Dreaming Store

24. Use Case – For Dreaming Store

25. Use Case – For Dreaming Store

26. Demo

27. For Dreaming Store – Provider Class

28. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class

29. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class

30. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class

31. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class

32. For Dreaming Store – Read Google sheet

33. For Dreaming Store – Read Google sheet

34. For Dreaming Store – Unit Test
Add a filter

35. • Allow you to read information on your org and show as external object
• Create a connection to another org
Apex Connector – Anything else?

36. • Fields
• Double  value lose precision beyond 10 significant digits
• String  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  soft limit
Apex Connector - Limits

37. • 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  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

38. • Configuration with #clicksnotcode
• Real Time refresh
• It doesn’t count against storage limit
Take away as End User

39. Q&A

40. • http://goo.gl/RQRu8y
• http://goo.gl/f4G7Rd
• http://goo.gl/Rtv4zw
• Do you want more?
• Lightning Connect Custom Adapters: Connecting Anything with Salesforce
• Thursday at 2.45pm Moscone West 2009
Links and more
Agustina García Peralta
agarcia@financialforce.com
@agarciaodeian
www.agarciaodeian.com
http://www.meetup.com/es/Spain-Salesforce-Developer-User-Group/
HelloWorld Apex Connector code  https://goo.gl/VEEO0s

41. Thank you