SFDC API

Utilizing the partner WSDL from a Salesforce organization, generated to a JAR, which is then utilized as a API go between for java.

Background

So initially I was working in test automation using Selenium to automate the browser, a way we initially had this was Use the CLI Dataloader to load spreadsheets into the test org .. run the selenium scripts .. then delete the data .. This was painfull ... so instead I looked at the API and utilizing this and it now seems to be great for our test automation..

We can quickly spin up a test script with or without the browser ..perform the test .. then perform asserts... or even assert ..loads into salesforce .. Which then fire triggers and assert that they are set to what we are expecting.. Not sure if its usefull for anyone but might be handy for some ..

Getting Started

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

• Maven

Installing

So I tried to make this a plugin for any maven project so hopefully all you should need to do is add this repo as a module to your project

Also be sure to run the install-jar.bat file under the lib folder this installs the partner api which gives us the generic api objects

And away you go !

Using in test script

Example - Can be found here

private static SaveResult[] result ; 
	@Before
	public  void setUp() {
		SObject account = new SObject("Account") ;
		account.setSObjectField("Name", "Test Account ");
		account.setSObjectField("RecordTypeId", RecordTypes.getId("Account", "Broker"));
		result = PartnerSession.insert(new SObject[] {account}) ; 
		
	}
	
	@Test
	public  void doingTestingStuff(){
		
		System.out.println(result[0].getId());
	}
	@After
	public void tearDown(){ //removing the data after the test has finished this can be implemented differently if needed 
		for(SaveResult record : result) {
			PartnerSession.delete(new String[]{record.getId()}) ; 
		}
	}

Built With

• Java
• Maven - Dependency Management
• Salesforce Soap Api - Used to generate RSS Feeds

Authors

• Thomas Woodhouse - Initial work