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Overview

The Salesforce Publisher Snap is a Write-type Snap that publishes Salesforce platform event records to a given event custom sObject (Salesforce Object). Salesforce platform events are part of Salesforce’s enterprise messaging platform and help deliver secure and scalable custom notifications within Salesforce or from external sources.

  • In Bulk API mode, the Snap publishes multiple platform event records in batches.

  • In REST API mode, the Snap publishes only one platform event record per each request, for each input document.

We do not recommend you to use Salesforce Platform events in mission-critical applications as Salesforce platform events do not guarantee message delivery or count. However, they work very well in low-key applications like sending events containing information about printer ink cartridges. Subscribers can subscribe to the events to monitor printer ink levels and place orders to replace cartridges with low ink levels.

Input and Output

Expected inputA stream of documents whose data schema is the same as the schema that is defined in the selected Platform Event custom SObject. Each document contains one Salesforce Platform Event record. The Snap supports the input schema suggest functionality that shows the input schema in the Target path of the Mapper Snap if the Mapper Snap is connected to the input view.

Expected outputA stream of documents that contain the success field for the event record that is published, and the original field for the corresponding input record.

Expected upstream SnapsAny Snap with a document output view. For example, JSON Parser, Mapper.

Expected downstream SnapsAny Snap with a document input view. For example, JSON Formatter, Mapper.

Prerequisites

None

Configuring Accounts

This Snap uses account references created on the Accounts page of SnapLogic Manager to handle access to this endpoint. See Salesforce Account for information on setting up this type of account.

Configuring Views

Input

This Snap has exactly one input view. 

OutputThis Snap has at most one output view.
ErrorThis Snap has at most one error view and produces documents in the view. Each document in the error view contains key/value pairs from the input view and an error message from Salesforce.com. The error message is in the value of the error key.

Troubleshooting

None

Limitations and Known Issues

In Salesforce 44.0, when an input document contains extra fields which are not part of the list of fields defined in a given Platform Event object, the error handling of Salesforce.com in REST API and Bulk API is different. REST API throws the error: "No such column ...". However, Bulk API ignores all extra fields and successfully publishes records as long as the mandatory fields are present.

Modes

Snap Settings


LabelRequired. The name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.
Service version

Required. The version number of the Salesforce service that you want to connect to.

Salesforce platform event is supported in version 44.0 or later.

Example: 44.0

Default value: 44.0 

Platform event

Required. The name of the Salesforce platform event custom object. All Salesforce platform event object names end with __e. You can select the name from the suggested list in the dropdown.

Example: Printer_Event__e

Default value: None

Salesforce API

The Salesforce API mode. Select either Bulk API or REST API.

In REST API mode, the Snap publishes one record at a time and returns the results in the output. REST API is simpler and faster if the number of records to be published is small.

Example: Bulk API

Default value: REST API

Batch size

Required. The batch size in records.

  • In Bulk API mode, you can enter any value between 1 and 10,000. Each input document forms one Salesforce Platform Event record to be published. The Snap stores the records in memory until the number of records reaches the specified batch size and sends the request to SFDC in a single batch. Increasing the batch size increases the amount of memory that is used during data load. Decreasing the batch size increases the number of API calls against Salesforce.

  • In REST API, the Snap can insert only one record per each request regardless of the Batch size value.

Example: 700

Default value: 200

Batch timeout

The batch timeout in seconds. The Snap sends a batch write request to SDFC when the number of input documents in the buffer reaches the given Batch size. However, sometimes, input documents may not arrive for a long time. In such cases, a Batch timeout value helps send a batch write request in a specified time interval even if the number of input documents in the buffer is less than the buffer size. 

If you set Batch timeout to 0, the Snap waits until the number of input documents in the buffer reaches the Batch size. 

Example: 60

Default value: None

Number of retries

The maximum number of retry attempts in case of a network failure. 

Example: 3

Default value:  1

Retry interval (seconds)
The minimum number of seconds for which the Snap must wait before attempting recovery from a network failure.

Example:  3

Default value: 1

Pass through

If selected, the input document is passed through to the output view under the key original. If not selected, the input document is not passed and there is no original key in the output document.

Default value:  Selected

Execute during preview

Executes the Snap during the pipeline validation so that the output view can produce a preview data.

Default value: Not selected 

Example


This Pipeline demonstrates how the Salesforce Publisher Snap processes three different input documents. The first document is a valid record. The second document has one required field that is missing. The third document contains an extra field that is not a part of the field that is defined in the Event object. 

Download this pipeline.

 Understanding the pipeline

The JSON Generator Snap is used to provide the input document. The input document contains different values for a printer. The input data preview is as follows:

We use the Salesforce Publisher Snap to publish the values. The following image displays the Snap configuration in REST API mode

All the expression properties in the Snap use Pipeline parameters. The following image displays the Pipeline parameters that are used in this example:

After you validate the Pipeline, you can see that the first document is successfully published in both the modes. The second input document produces an error document in the error view in both REST and Bulk API modes. The third document produces an error document in the error view in REST API, but is successfully published in Bulk API.

Following is the output preview in the Bulk API mode:

Following is the output preview of the error document in Bulk API mode:

Following is the output preview in the REST API mode:

Following is the output preview of the error document in the REST API mode:

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