International Journal of Science, Engineering and TechnologyAuthors: Hardeep Singh
Abstract: In the modern digital ecosystem, enterprises rarely function in isolation. Data flows seamlessly between applications, systems, and platforms to ensure efficiency and enhanced customer experiences. One of the most widely used formats for data exchange is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), favored for its lightweight structure and human readability. Within Salesforce, handling JSON data has become an essential skill to facilitate integrations with external systems, cloud services, and APIs. Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary programming language, plays a pivotal role in enabling developers to parse, manipulate, and persist JSON data. This article provides an extensive explanation of how business operations can maximize their efficiency in connecting Salesforce with outside data sources by leveraging Apex-based solutions to seamlessly consume, process, and transform JSON. It highlights the challenges faced during such integrations and their resolutions, including considerations around bulk processing, error handling, security practices, and performance optimization. Additionally, the article emphasizes best practices such as deserialization using strongly-typed Apex classes, handling dynamic JSON structures, leveraging wrapper classes, and ensuring data integrity through transactional control and validation mechanisms. By embedding JSON into Apex-based integrations, organizations foster interoperability while securely scaling communications between Salesforce and other essential systems. Given the increasing reliance on cross-application workflows in enterprise IT and customer relationship management, mastering handling JSON with Apex ensures developers and system architects can deliver robust, future-proof integration frameworks that meet today’s evolving digital demands while preparing the foundation for flexible innovation ahead.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17278743
