Apex is the core language for customizing business logic on the Salesforce Platform and for integrating with third-party systems. Whenever you need to expose platform data or custom logic to an external system, one of your options is to create a custom Apex REST endpoint. In this post, we’ll discuss the use cases for implementing custom Apex REST endpoints, and we’ll share tips on how to implement and test them.
Understand use cases and alternatives to custom REST endpoints
Custom Apex REST endpoints are quite powerful because they give you full control over the business logic for your integration. However, it’s easy to overlook the fact that your custom endpoint code induces a maintenance cost, and that there are a number of alternatives that do not require code on the Salesforce side.
Salesforce has a rich set of APIs that may cover your integration needs:
The REST API is
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