REST API with XML&JSON for Request and Response in Salesforce

In Previous Example I created records using Post Method from workbench. Now from this blog post am explaining how to do create record using xml/JSON with RestAPI using work bench.

Go to workbench -> Rest explorer -> Select Post radio button.
and give the URL something like this ==> /services/apexrest/v1/AccountMgmt/

as per your url mapping in your apex class:

Update apex class:

@RestResource(urlMapping='/v1/AccountMgmt/') global class AccountMgmt {     @httpPost     global static Account doPostMethod(String Name, Integer AnnualRevenue){     Account acc= new Account(Name =name,AnnualRevenue = annualrevenue);     insert acc;     return acc;     } }

In workbench Explorer Body Write like below .xml Request

<request> <Name>Account creation using XML</Name> <AnnualRevenue>1000</AnnualRevenue> </request>

Now Execute:

And now suppose in future if you want to map more fields , its not easy to everytime quickly add fields in apex class. So to overcome this problem we can use Wrapper Classes
Now let’s update same apex class with Wrapper class.

@RestResource(urlMapping='/v1/AccountMgmt/') global class AccountMgmt {          @httpPost     global static Account doPostMethod(AccountClass AcctInfo){     Account Acct = AcctInfo.Acct;         insert Acct;         return Acct;     }      global class AccountClass{         Account Acct { get; set; }     } }

Request Body in .xml Request write like below…

<request>   <AcctInfo>     <Acct>        <Name>Account creation using XML</Name>        <AnnualRevenue>1000</AnnualRevenue>        <Phone>8867400396</Phone>     </Acct>   </AcctInfo> </request>

Output:

Now Let’s try the same with JSON format file request body.. Make sure you update header from xml to json.

{   "AcctInfo" :{    "Acct" :{            "Name" : "JSON Test Account",            "AnnualRevenue" : 100,            "Phone" : 8867400396            }      } }

Output: