Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pyforce
Version: 1.3
Summary: A Python client wrapping the Saleforce.com SOAP API
Home-page: https://github.com/idbentley/pyforce
Author: Simon Fell et al.  reluctantly Forked by idbentley
Author-email: ian.bentley@gmail.com
License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2
Description: Introduction
        ============
        
        This is a reluctant fork of the beatbox project originally authored by Simon 
        Fell, (his version locked at 0.92) later drastically changed by these guys
        https://code.google.com/p/salesforce-beatbox/ (versioned at 20.0).
        
        Renamed to `pyforce` to avoid confusion related to the fractured community
        version. (https://github.com/superfell/Beatbox/issues/6) Long story short,
        the python client in the fork at version 20.0 is exceptionally useful, so
        going back to 0.92 would be a mistake, however the beatbox version at 20.0 is
        also no longer maintained (judging by the issues).  `pyforce` builds off of
        the version available there, integrating bug fixes, and new features.
        
        This module contains 2 versions of the Salesforce.com client:
        
         XMLClient
            An xmltramp wrapper that handles the xml fun.
         PythonClient
           Marshalls the returned objects into proper Python data types. e.g. integer
           fields return integers.
        
        Compatibility
        =============
        
        `pyforce` supports versions 16.0 through 20.0 of the Salesforce Partner Web
        Services API. However, the following API calls have not been implemented at
        this time:
        
         * convertLead
         * emptyRecycleBin
         * invalidateSessions
         * logout
         * merge
         * process
         * queryAll
         * undelete
         * describeSObject
         * sendEmail
         * describeDataCategoryGroups
         * describeDataCategoryGroupStructures
        
        `pyforce` supports python 2.x for values of x >=6.  It probably works in 2.4,
        but not officially supported.
        
        Basic Usage Examples
        ====================
        
        Instantiate a Python Salesforce.com client:
            >>> svc = pyforce.Client()
            >>> svc.login('username', 'passwordTOKEN')
        
        (Note that interacting with Salesforce.com via the API requires the use of a
        'security token' which must be appended to the password.  See sfdc docs for
        details)
        
        The pyforce client allows you to query with sfdc SOQL.
        
        Here's an example of a query for contacts with last name 'Doe':
        
            res = svc.query("SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName FROM Contact WHERE LastName='Doe'")
            res[0]
            {'LastName': 'Doe', 'type': 'Contact', 'Id': '0037000000eRf6vAAC', 'FirstName': 'John'}
            res[0].Id
            '0037000000eRf6vAAC'
        
        Add a new Lead:
        
            contact = {
                    'type': 'Lead', 
                    'LastName': 'Ian', 
                    'FirstName': 'Bentley', 
                    'Company': '10gen'
                }
            res = svc.create(contact)
            if not res[0]['errors']:
                contact_id = res[0]['id']
            else:
                raise Exception('Contact creation failed {0}'.format(res[0]['errors']))
        
        Batches work automatically (though sfdc limits the number to 200 maximum):
        
            contacts = [
                {
                    'type': 'Lead', 
                    'LastName': 'Glick', 
                    'FirstName': 'David', 
                    'Company': 'Individual'
                },
                {
                    'type': 'Lead', 
                    'LastName': 'Ian', 
                    'FirstName': 'Bentley', 
                    'Company': '10gen'
                }
            ]
            res = svc.create(contacts)
        
        More Examples
        =============
        
        The examples folder contains the examples for the xml client. For examples on 
        how to use the python client see the tests directory.
        
        Some of these other products that were built on top of beatbox can also provide
        example of `pyforce` use, though this project may diverge from the beatbox api.
        
          * `Salesforce Base Connector`_
          * `Salesforce PFG Adapter`_
          * `Salesforce Auth Plugin`_
          * `RSVP for Salesforce`_
        
        .. _`Salesforce Base Connector`: http://plone.org/products/salesforcebaseconnector
        .. _`Salesforce PFG Adapter`: http://plone.org/products/salesforcepfgadapter
        .. _`Salesforce Auth Plugin`: http://plone.org/products/salesforceauthplugin
        .. _`RSVP for Salesforce`: http://plone.org/products/collective.salesforce.rsvp
        
        
        Alternatives
        ============
        
        David Lanstein has created a `Python Salesforce Toolkit` that is based on the
        `suds` SOAP library.  That project has not seen any commit since June 2011, so
        it is assumed to be abandoned.
        
        .. `Python Salesforce Toolkit`: http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/
        
        Running Tests
        =============
        
        At the fork time, all tests are integration tests that require access to a
        Salesforce environment.  It is my intent to change these tests to be stub
        based unit tests.
        
        From the beatbox documentation:
        
        First, we need to add some custom fields to the Contacts object in your Salesforce instance:
        
         * Login to your Salesforce.com instance
         * Browse to Setup --> Customize --> Contacts --> Fields --> "New" button
         * Add a Picklist (multi-select) labeled "Favorite Fruit", then add
            * Apple
            * Orange
            * Pear
         * Leave default of 3 lines and field name should default to "Favorite_Fruit"
         * Add a Number labeled "Favorite Integer", with 18 places, 0 decimal places
         * Add a Number labeled "Favorite Float", with 13 places, 5 decimal places
        
        Create a sfconfig file in your python path with the following format::
        
            USERNAME='your salesforce username'
            PASSWORD='your salesforce passwordTOKEN'
        
        where TOKEN is your Salesforce API login token.
        
        Add './src' to your PYTHONPATH
        
        Run the tests::
        
            python src/pyforce/tests/test_xmlclient.py
            python src/pyforce/tests/test_pythonClient.py
        
        
        Changelog
        =========
        
        1.2 (2013-10-25)
         * Two bugfixes for supporting Python 2.7
         * Fix some dos encoding issues
         Thanks to: @lociii and @gabber7
        
        1.01 (2013-04-10)
         * Fix MANIFEST.in for releasing to pypi
        
        1.0 (2013-04-01)
         * Rename beatbox to pyforce
         * Support embedded dictionaries in python objects submitted to the python
           client
         * Rename writeStringElement method to writeElement for more accuracy in name
        
        Beatbox forked as Pyforce
        -------------------------
        
        20.0 (2010-11-30)
        -----------------
        
        * Add 'encryptedstring' to the list of types marshalled as strings.  Thanks
          sobyone.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Update to use version 20.0 of the Salesforce.com partner WSDL by default.
          [davisagli]
        
        19.0 (2010-08-23)
        -----------------
        
        * Update marshalling of describeGlobal and describeSObjects responses to
          include new properties now returned by the API.  For backwards
          compatibility, we set the types property of the describeGlobal response
          to a list of the names of all types (which Salesforce now returns in
          separate DescribeGlobalSObjectResult objects).
          [davisagli]
        
        * Update to use version 19.0 of the Salesforce.com partner WSDL by default.
          Also, use the new login.salesforce.com login endpoint by default.
          [davisagli]
        
        16.1 (2010-03-11)
        -----------------
        
        * Catch and retry on exceptions from the socket library, in addition to ones
          from httplib.  This fixes a regression introduced in version 16.0.
          [davisagli]
        
        
        16.0 (2009-11-12)
        -----------------
        
        * Don't strip newlines when marshalling the values of textarea fields.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Make sure to add a field to fieldsToNull if its Python value is None.
          [rhettg, davisagli]
        
        * Fix issue where numbers of type long weren't converted to a string.
          [spleeman, davisagli]
        
        * Only catch HTTP exceptions when retrying a connection.
          [spleeman, davisagli]
        
        
        16.0b1 (2009-09-08)
        -------------------
        
        * Log beatbox calls at the debug level.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Fixed a string exception for compatibility with Python 2.6.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Added support for SOSL searches via the search method.  Thanks to Alex Tokar
          of Web Collective.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Added an optional cache for the sObject type descriptions needed for
          marshalling query results into Python objects. This can avoid an extra
          describeSObjects API call for each query, but means that the information
          could become stale if the type metadata is modified in Salesforce.com.
          The cache is off by default. Turn it on by passing
          cacheTypeDescriptions=True when instantiating a Python client. The cache may
          be reset by calling the flushTypeDescriptionsCache method of the Python
          client.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Support a full SOQL statement as a parameter to the query method of the
          Python client.  The old 3-part method signature (fields, sObjectType,
          conditionalExpression) should continue to work.
          [davisagli]
        
        * In the Python client, support relationship queries and other queries that may
          return multiple types of objects.  Object type descriptions (required for
          marshalling field values into the correct Python type) are cached for the
          duration of the query after the first time they are used.  Thanks to
          Melnychuk Taras of Quintagroup.
          [davisagli]
        
        * In the Python client, queries now return a list-like QueryRecordSet holding
          a sequence of dict-like QueryRecord objects, instead of a dict containing a
          list of dicts.  This allows for more Pythonic access such as results[0].Id
          instead of results['results'][0]['Id'].  The old syntax should still work.
          Thanks to Melnychuk Taras of Quintagroup.
          [davisagli]
        
        * Update to use version 16.0 of the Salesforce.com partner WSDL.
          [davisagli]
        
        
        0.12 (2009-05-13)
        -----------------
        
        * Use the default serverUrl value if the passed value evaluates to boolean
          False.
          [davisagli]
        
        0.11 (2009-05-13)
        -----------------
        
        * Access 'created' instead of 'isCreated' in the upsert result. This closes
          http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-beatbox/issues/detail?id=4
          [davisagli]
        
        10.1 (unreleased)
        -----------------
        
        0.10 (2009-05-06)
        -----------------
        
        * Added optional serverUrl parameter when creating a Client.
          [davisagli]
        
        pre 0.9.1.1
        -----------
        
        * ancient history
        
Keywords: python salesforce salesforce.com
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