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Why do we need jsforce in Salesforce App?
It capsulates the access to various APIs provided by Salesforce in asynchronous JavaScript function calls. Unlike other Salesforce API libraries, it is intended to give integrated interface both server-side and client-side apps, so you don’t have to rewrite similar logics with different libraries only for running in different environment.
When to use AutoFetch in document-jsforce?
When a query is executed, it emits “record” event for each fetched record. By listening the event you can collect fetched records. If you want to fetch records exceeding the limit number of returning records per one query, you can use autoFetch option in Query#execute (options) (or its synonym Query#exec (options), Query#run (options)) method.
How to get jsforce session ID in Visualforce?
If you are writing HTML5 apps on Visualforce, API access token is automatically obtained as session ID. You can just pass it to Connection constructor to initialize. Also you can use static resources to upload JSforce JavaScript file to include.
What happens when Fields argument is omitted in jsforce?
Another representation of the query above. When fields argument is omitted in SObject#find (conditions, fields) call, it will implicitly describe current SObject fields before the query (lookup cached result first, if available) and then fetch all fields defined in the SObject.
What is the hack is jsforce in JavaScript?
What the hack is JsForce? JsFroce is an Isomorphic ( universal ) JavaScript Library, which utilises Salesforce API. It works both in browser and with Node.js. In simple words, with the help of JsForce, We can access to various APIs provided by Salesforce in asynchronous JavaScript function calls.
Do you need a Salesforce username and password?
When you have a Salesforce username and password (and maybe security token, if required), you can use Connection#login (username, password) to establish a connection to Salesforce. By default, it uses SOAP login API (so no OAuth2 client information is required).
You can get Salesforce authorization page URL by OAuth2#getAuthorizationUrl (options). After the acceptance of authorization request, your app is callbacked from Salesforce with authorization code in URL parameter. Pass the code to Connection#authorize (code) and get access token.