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What is SOAP and REST API in Salesforce?
What is SOAP and REST API in Salesforce?
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SOAP and REST API are used to expose your data from force.com platform to other platforms(like java) or to allow external application to invoke Apex methods.
Soap API : It supports data in the form of XML .
REST API : It supports data in the form of XML and JSON.
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Hi Aditya,
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a web service architecture, which specifies the basic rules to be considered while designing web service platforms. It typically uses HTTP as a layer 7 protocol .It is based on the standard XML format, designed especially to transport and store structured data between two applications.
REST(Representational State Transfer) is another web services interface for interacting with Salesforce. It support both JSON and XML formats.
and various methods like Get, set, Put , Post, Patch.
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Hi Aditya,
Soap and Rest API help us to interact with other platforms and helps external platforms to invoke apex methods
SOAP API supports data in form of XML while REST API supports data in form of XML as well as JSON.
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