Salesforce Developer Tutorial (Integrations): How to Send POST Requests In Apex
In this episode we go over how to send POST requests in Apex. It can be really confusing to send a POST request the first time you have to do it for an integration. In this video we go over, how to use wrapper classes to help assist us in creating the body of the outbound request, how to serialize our data to send out, how to use named credentials and much more.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Go vote for the next video!
0:47 - Why is learning about POST requests important?
2:35 - Explaining RestResources and the endpoint we're calling
5:30 - Explanation of how Connected Apps, Auth. Providers and Named Credentials work
15:35 - Building/Explaining how to do a POST request
29:35 - Using JSON2Apex to create wrapper classes
33:45 - Outro
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