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VB.NET / Salesforce Platform APIs / Bulk Create Batch

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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
Dim success As Boolean

Dim bdRequestBody As New Chilkat.BinData
success = bdRequestBody.LoadFile("file")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load file")
    Exit Sub
End If


http.SetRequestHeader("X-SFDC-Session","{{_accessToken}}")
http.SetRequestHeader("Accept-Encoding","gzip")
' Adds the "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" header.
http.AuthToken = "<access_token>"
http.SetRequestHeader("charset","UTF-8")
http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Encoding","gzip")

Dim resp As Chilkat.HttpResponse = http.PBinaryBd("POST","https://domain.com/services/async/{{version}}/job/{{_jobId}}/batch",bdRequestBody,"zip/csv",False,False)
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim sbResponseBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
resp.GetBodySb(sbResponseBody)


Dim xmlResponse As New Chilkat.Xml
xmlResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,True)
Debug.WriteLine(xmlResponse.GetXml())


' Sample XML response:
' (Sample code for parsing the XML response is shown below)

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
' <batchInfo xmlns="http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload">
'     <id>751...</id>
'     <jobId>750...</jobId>
'     <state>Queued</state>
'     <createdDate>datetime</createdDate>
'     <systemModstamp>datetime</systemModstamp>
'     <numberRecordsProcessed>0</numberRecordsProcessed>
'     <numberRecordsFailed>0</numberRecordsFailed>
'     <totalProcessingTime>0</totalProcessingTime>
'     <apiActiveProcessingTime>0</apiActiveProcessingTime>
'     <apexProcessingTime>0</apexProcessingTime>
' </batchInfo>

' Sample code for parsing the XML response...
' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample XML: Generate XML Parsing Code




Dim batchInfo_xmlns As String = xmlResponse.GetAttrValue("xmlns")
Dim id As String = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("id")
Dim jobId As String = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("jobId")
Dim state As String = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("state")
Dim createdDate As String = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("createdDate")
Dim systemModstamp As String = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("systemModstamp")
Dim numberRecordsProcessed As Integer = xmlResponse.GetChildIntValue("numberRecordsProcessed")
Dim numberRecordsFailed As Integer = xmlResponse.GetChildIntValue("numberRecordsFailed")
Dim totalProcessingTime As Integer = xmlResponse.GetChildIntValue("totalProcessingTime")
Dim apiActiveProcessingTime As Integer = xmlResponse.GetChildIntValue("apiActiveProcessingTime")
Dim apexProcessingTime As Integer = xmlResponse.GetChildIntValue("apexProcessingTime")

Curl Command

curl -X POST
	-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"
	-H "X-SFDC-Session: {{_accessToken}}"
	-H "Content-Type: text/csv"
	-H "Content-Type: zip/csv"
	-H "charset: UTF-8"
	-H "Accept-Encoding: gzip"
	-H "Content-Encoding: gzip"
	--data-binary '@file'
https://domain.com/services/async/{{version}}/job/{{_jobId}}/batch

Postman Collection Item JSON

{
  "name": "Bulk Create Batch",
  "event": [
    {
      "listen": "test",
      "script": {
        "exec": [
          "const context = pm.environment.name ? pm.environment : pm.collectionVariables;",
          "",
          "var xmlTree = xml2Json(pm.response.text());",
          "console.log(xmlTree);",
          "context.set(\"_batchId\", xmlTree['batchInfo']['id']);"
        ],
        "type": "text/javascript"
      }
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "header": [
      {
        "key": "X-SFDC-Session",
        "value": "{{_accessToken}}"
      },
      {
        "key": "Content-Type",
        "value": "text/csv"
      },
      {
        "key": "Content-Type",
        "value": "zip/csv",
        "disabled": true
      },
      {
        "key": "charset",
        "value": "UTF-8"
      },
      {
        "key": "Accept-Encoding",
        "value": "gzip",
        "disabled": true
      },
      {
        "key": "Content-Encoding",
        "value": "gzip",
        "disabled": true
      }
    ],
    "body": {
      "mode": "file",
      "file": {
        "src": ""
      }
    },
    "url": {
      "raw": "{{_endpoint}}/services/async/{{version}}/job/{{_jobId}}/batch",
      "host": [
        "{{_endpoint}}"
      ],
      "path": [
        "services",
        "async",
        "{{version}}",
        "job",
        "{{_jobId}}",
        "batch"
      ]
    }
  },
  "response": [
    {
      "name": "Successful Bulk Create Batch",
      "originalRequest": {
        "method": "POST",
        "header": [
          {
            "key": "X-SFDC-Session",
            "value": "{{_accessToken}}"
          },
          {
            "key": "Content-Type",
            "value": "text/csv"
          },
          {
            "key": "Content-Type",
            "value": "zip/csv",
            "disabled": true
          },
          {
            "key": "charset",
            "value": "UTF-8"
          },
          {
            "key": "Accept-Encoding",
            "value": "gzip",
            "disabled": true
          },
          {
            "key": "Content-Encoding",
            "value": "gzip",
            "disabled": true
          }
        ],
        "body": {
          "mode": "file",
          "file": {
            "src": "/Users/username/Downloads/account.csv"
          }
        },
        "url": {
          "raw": "{{_endpoint}}/services/async/{{version}}/job/{{_jobId}}/batch",
          "host": [
            "{{_endpoint}}"
          ],
          "path": [
            "services",
            "async",
            "{{version}}",
            "job",
            "{{_jobId}}",
            "batch"
          ]
        }
      },
      "status": "Created",
      "code": 201,
      "_postman_previewlanguage": "xml",
      "header": [
        {
          "key": "Date",
          "value": "Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:16:10 GMT"
        },
        {
          "key": "Strict-Transport-Security",
          "value": "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains"
        },
        {
          "key": "X-Content-Type-Options",
          "value": "nosniff"
        },
        {
          "key": "X-XSS-Protection",
          "value": "1; mode=block"
        },
        {
          "key": "X-Robots-Tag",
          "value": "none"
        },
        {
          "key": "Cache-Control",
          "value": "no-cache,must-revalidate,max-age=0,no-store,private"
        },
        {
          "key": "Location",
          "value": "/services/async/58.0/job/7502o00000kjNCsAAM/batch/7512o00001DSJWnAAP"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Type",
          "value": "application/xml"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Encoding",
          "value": "gzip"
        },
        {
          "key": "Transfer-Encoding",
          "value": "chunked"
        }
      ],
      "cookie": [
      ],
      "body": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<batchInfo\n   xmlns=\"http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload\">\n    <id>751...</id>\n    <jobId>750...</jobId>\n    <state>Queued</state>\n    <createdDate>datetime</createdDate>\n    <systemModstamp>datetime</systemModstamp>\n    <numberRecordsProcessed>0</numberRecordsProcessed>\n    <numberRecordsFailed>0</numberRecordsFailed>\n    <totalProcessingTime>0</totalProcessingTime>\n    <apiActiveProcessingTime>0</apiActiveProcessingTime>\n    <apexProcessingTime>0</apexProcessingTime>\n</batchInfo>"
    }
  ]
}