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REST API 

The REST API provide provides programmatic access to Read Reading and Write replication data. The REST API identifies the replication application and its users using OAUTH  ; responses are available in json.  We have used SWAGGER editor for the end users to make the API calls so that they can try out APIs exposed by our platform. 

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  1. User should have the release of 4.6.1 or later.
  2. The on-premise instance should have Replication service running.

There are is two API Methods list which are is exposed for this release, we will be adding more methods in the upcoming releases. The order of the execution of API calls are as follows 

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The Replicate method is the actual API call used to invoke the replication process so that the Salesforce objects gets replicated to the Database. From this call, the process id is generated which is used in the checkStatus method to check the status of the replication process.

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Parameter

Description

DataType

Salesforce (optional)

The salesforce credentials which are required to connect to the salesforce Salesforce instance

Salesforce

Database (optional)

The database credentials which are required to connect to supported databases

Database

Objects (optional)

The salesfoce salesforce object which a client to replicate

Array Table

Logs (optional)

The parameters related to Log settings and specific to DBSync

Log properties

Run (optional)

The parameters related to run settings and specific to DBSync

Run properties

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Parameter

Description

DataType

SoapEndpoint (optional)

The url URL to access the salesforce Salesforce application

string

bulkApiEnable (optional)

The possible values are True and false which enables and disables the bulkapi calls

boolean

callbackurl (optional)

The dbsync DBSync call back urlURL

string

consumerkey (optional)

Its a consumersecretkey generated  from salesforce oauth

string

ConsumerSecret (optional)

It's a consumerSecret generated from the salesforce oauth

string

password (optional)

The password of the salesforce Salesforce instance

string

username (optional)

The username of the salesforce Salesforce instance from which the user wishes to retrieve information for replication

string

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Parameter

Description

DataType

filereplication (optional)

The possible values are true and false to enable and disable the file replication

boolean

s3 (optional)

The possible values are true and false, true if hosted on aws

boolean

awsaccesskey (optional)

awsaccess key if db is hosted on aws, can be retrieved from the aws instance

string

awsBucketName (optional)

awsBucketName if db is hosted on aws, can be retrieved from the aws instance

string

awsRegion (optional)

awsRegion if db is hosted on aws, can be retrieved from the aws instance

string

consumerSecret (optional)

ConsumerSecret if db is hosted on aws, can be retrieved from the aws instance

string

database (optional)

Name of the database Eg: Sqlserver/Oracle/Mysql

string

host (optional)

The location of the database for instance localhost

string

password (optional)

the password of the database if any

string

port (optional)

port number the database instance which uses

string

schema (optional)

The name of the database

string

type (optional)

Specify the database that is being used Eg: Oracle

string

url URL (optional)

The url URL of the database which is generated by the replication in the connection string

string

username (optional)

The username of the database

string

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Parameter

Description

DataType

excludes (optional)

If the user wishes to remove any of the fields from the selected object in salesforce then he can use this parameter

Array[string]

filter (optional)

Filter The filter parameter is used to specify the condition to read data from salesforceSalesforce

string

name (optional)

Name of the object that need needs to be retrieved from the salesforce

string

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Parameter

Description

DataType

emailerror (optional)

The possible values are true and false to enable the them and disable the email notification from DBSync replication tool

boolean

database (optional)

The possible values are true and false to enable the them and disable the email notification of database from DBSync replication tool

boolean

dir (optional)

The directory name if the database if flat file database

string

emailreceipents (optional)

The email id of the receipient recipient to who the system is intended to send out the logs / notifications

Array[string]

emailsender (optional)

The email id of the sender can be also be passed to identify the from address

string

callbackURL (optional)

The dbsync url DBSync URL which sends the email notifcationsnotifications

string

Run Properties Params

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Parameter

Description

Data type

Status

The possible values are True and False which sends out the response value

String

SubmitTime

The API submitted time

Date

CompletionTime

The API Completion Time

Date

ProcessID

The process id which is sent by the API to identify the process

String

callbackURL

The url URL is passed from the API

string

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The Check status method is used to return the status of the replication process and to invoke this method user must have the process id attribute . The process id can be generated from the first method "Replicate", the check status method has two parts to it one is the request object and the other is the  response object.

The below table explain explains the attributes and their description of this method.  The process ID is the mandatory attribute used to invoke this call. 

Parameter

Description

Data type

Status

The possible values are True and False which sends out the response value

String

SubmitTime

The API submitted time

Date

CompletionTime

The API Completion Time

Date

ProcessID

The process id which is sent by the API to identify the process

String

callbackURL

The url URL is passed from the API

string

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