Tuesday 22 May 2018

Converting Curl Request into Apex HTTP Request #Salesforce

Recently in a project I was working with a requirement, where we need to integrated Salesforce with that system, when I started going through the API documentation of the another system, they have provided everything with the curl request and response was in JSON.




So many of you guys might have already explored curl and converting the request as per another system requirement, but for me this was the first time. So if any of you have better approach then the one I am going to explain, please let me know.

So What is Curl ?

"cURL is a command line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax.
Since cURL uses libcurl, it supports a range of common Internet protocols, currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, LDAP, DAP, DICT, TELNET, FILE, IMAP, POP3, SMTP and RTSP.
cURL supports HTTPS and performs SSL certificate verification by default when a secure protocol is specified such as HTTPS. When cURL connects to a remote server via HTTPS".

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So here is of the curl request that I was dealing with, and I have taken a normal one which can be easily converted to apex.


So in above request the main thing to be taken care is to identify the parameter, header, body, method and endpoint. To identify these you need to look for -X -u -d -H

-x stands for request method
-u stands for authorization header
-d stands for body of the request
-H also stands for header

So by knowing the parameter defined in the curl request you can easily and quickly create a request in apex. So the request in apex format looks like below




So here is an small description of curl request formatting.
Thank you!

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