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Testing your configuration to send Salesforce changes notifications to Talend ESB

This section explains how to test your configuration by creating or updating accounts in Salesforce.

Procedure

  1. Connect to Salesforce.
  2. Click Accounts.
  3. Click New to create a new account.
  4. Enter some information for the new account, then click Save.
    The new account is created in Salesforce, it should send a notification message to Talend ESB. You should have a new message in your route.
  5. Check the Talend Studio logs and the statistics.
    You can see below that a message was received and processed. The message content is displayed in the logs thanks to the log_response component.
  6. Check your ActiveMQ console. The queue salesforce_notification_account contains pending messages waiting to be consumed.
  7. Check the received message details in ActiveMQ Console.

    You should see all the selected fields that you configured to be sent along with outbound messages.

  8. Deploy the route into a Talend Runtime and test the same process through a Talend Runtime, which is where your services and routes will generally run.

Results

You now know how to capture Salesforce object changes in real time and add a CDC-like functionality to your integration with Salesforce and Talend ESB.

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