This command line appplication is written in Python. This app allows CRUD operations against Salesforce bulk API: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_asynch/index.htm

Bonus features

• Standalone app
  • The app does not require additional libraries
• Code seperation
• bulkly.py - the CLI wrapper is sepearted from sf_bulk.py - the Salesforce bulk API wrapper
• Multi-Python
  • compatible with Python v 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3
• Include easily in other Python apps
  • sf_bulk.py can be easily included in other Python apps. Refer to comments in the file.

How-to

In your terminal, go to the bulkly folder

cd bulkly

Then run the following

python bulkly.py --user [User Name] --pw [Password] --token [Token] --sandbox [sandbox]

Example

python bulkly.py --user [email protected] --pw FORCE2012 --token GGrFnoIJutesEweBNPxyCihx2

Menu choices

Choice 1 - Create Job

prompt: jobOperation, jobObject, jobType

Choice 2 - Get Job

prompt: jobId

Choice 3 - Close Job

prompt: jobId

Choice 4 - Abort Job

prompt: jobId

Choice 5 - Add Batch

prompt: jobId, fileName, fileType

Choice 6 - Get Batches

prompt: jobId

Choice 7 - Get Batch

prompt: jobId, batchId

Choice 8 - Get Batch Request

prompt: jobId, batchId

Choice 9 - Get Batch Request

prompt: jobId, batchId

Code structure

The app has following structure:

bulkly.py the CLI app libs/requests python requests library libs/sf_bulk.py python wrapper for Salesforce bulk API

The file bulkly.py is the CLI app which renders menu, processes user choices and calls Salesforce bulk api. The requests library does http requests to Salesforce API endpoints. The sf_bulk library is a simple wrapper for Salesforce bulk API.