Salesforce, Google and Python

Last Updated on Monday, 8 December 2008 09:27 Written by Steve Monday, 8 December 2008 09:27

Salesforce.com today released a toolkit for Google’s Appengine. Since Appengine is a Python-only environment, the key component of this integration is a Python toolkit to communicate with Salesforce.com APIs. My favorite line in the whole package is this one:

self.serverUrl = "https://www.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/14.0"

That line of code shows that the Python toolkit is up to speed with the latest Salesforce API version, although there isn’t complete coverage yet. Our Plone integration has been using an older version of the toolkit, and we’ve been slowly working on upgrading it. Having Ron Hess upgrade it is a much better result!

Also in the Python toolkit is the ability to connect to the Metadata API, the API for creating objects, fields, and code. We’ll have to think about how we might use that in our integration.

I hope this brings more Python developers to Salesforce–this may get more people using our open source Plone/Salesforce integration, and help it to advance more rapidly.

1 Comment

1. Mike Leach   |  Monday, 08 December 2008 at 10:26 am

   Python rocks! Glad to see GAE as a website/portal development option.