Salesforce Developer Tutorial - How to create a custom REST Resource in Apex

In this episode we go over how to create your own custom REST resource in apex. We discuss why you might opt to create your own custom REST resource, what a REST resource is, create a REST resource together and then use postman to test our REST resource.

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Why create a custom REST Resource?
5:12 - What is a REST Resource?
8:58 - How to create a REST Resource
23:40 - Creating a connected app to connect to our REST Resource
30:00 - What is Postman?
31:35 - How to test your REST Resource in Postman
46:14 - Outro

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[willcalltickets]

This was great. Would love to see a video where you grab the access token in an external app.

[joshevans]

This was a great tutorial. Very informative, thanks!

[SandeepRahoolPV]

Hello, this a great video. may I know the code editor that you using ?

[windylou]

Hi I am so glad this video is still here to view. I am new to API's and I am seeing how one of our off shore dev folks set one up for us recently. In my instance which is Enterprise, I do not have the Access and manager your data (api). As a matter of fact, looking at your screenshot, I do not have any of the options that start with Access and manage. Would anyone know the reason for this. My only good option at this point is the Full access

[JoshMars_]

Great video, really helped me. Thank you very much.

[Peter-pdhy]

Hey Matt, I've noticed you use underscores when naming classes. Is this a common practice?

[matthewthehuman]

unfortunately I'm not having any luck following your tutorial (thank you by the way, it's really helpful). I'm running into
{
"error": "unsupported_grant_type",
"error_description": "grant type not supported"
}
any idea how I can enable password as grant type?

[massimotarquini]

great content. would you know why when i make the call out from Postman to Salesforce, nothing shows in the logs (when having my dev console open). Like the call is successful yet the log does not show anything. thanks

[ekron]

how could I create multiples HttGet on the same class?