Hello,

I tried to create a webhook today and it has an error that prevents it from working. I have tried circumventing your UI and it still did not work.

Can you please check or point me in the right direction?

Sincerely, xban1x

This exception has been logged with id 6nmngkpo4. I used this utility about a week ago with no issues on the sandbox account, now I'm getting the error above.

@jamesward Have you seen this error before?

Actor not found for: ActorSelection[Anchor(akka://application/), Path(/user/]

Hi,

If I authenticate, then fill out the form, and hit "Create Webhook"; the button grays out / disables for a moment, then nothing happens.

If I refresh, no webhook is displayed and if I create/mutate the sobject, nothing happens on the echo.

Name: CreateUpdateLead
SObject: Lead
Events: after insert and after update
URL: https://echo-webhook.herokuapp.com/e4ffaded-acf6-4242-9264-a496cbeccd5e

Any ideas?

https://jamesward.com/2014/06/30/create-webhooks-on-salesforce-com/#comment-2966380150

No dropdown for Objects appears, does that mean my salesforce login does not have the proper permissions?

Might I missed config?

Hello,
Thanks for the great tutorial. I used "https://echo-webhook.herokuapp.com/789456" this link to verify the web-hook notifications. but we are using Spring-Java framework. I cannot use the source that you have provided for us. Could you please help me to do it in java

Great job James! On line 144 in ForceUtil.scala, I noticed that you are using the tooling api to create Apex classes and triggers. The api docs indicate that you'll get an error if you attempt to use those methods on a "live" organization. Does this tool only work for Salesforce developer environments and sandboxes?

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/intro_crud_operations.htm

PS: I need to dynamically create triggers on objects that user's select at runtime (on a live environment), so I was just looking through your code to see how you pulled it off.

Also - it seems that the Salesforce Streaming API is pretty new. Would you recommend using the Streaming API (over webhooks)? It seems that the benefit of using the streaming API is that you can create push notifications and subscribe / unsubscribe at runtime.

Hey @jamesward

I've created a webhook on my sandbox org and it all works great. I've moved the classes to prod using change sets (successful), but when I do to deploy the changes, it runs the unit tests which result in a failure

System.NullPointerException: Attempt to de-reference a null object 
Stack Trace: Class.Hijinx_Logs_to_StagingWebhookTriggerTest.testTrigger: line 81, column 1

The code at line 81 is:

System.assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode());

Any idea what might be going on? I've tried running the tests in the sandbox and they pass, where they fail in prod.

I was altering some of the code generated by your template and I received an error that there was an unexpected @ character. Here is the line... https://github.com/jamesward/salesforce-webhook-creator/blob/master/app/apextemplates/classes/Webhook.scala.txt#L20

Removing one of the two @ chars fixed the error. Perhaps consider removing from the template as well or version for APIs if that was deprecated.

First of all - great work with this project. It's been amazing so far but it appears that I'm bumping into one of Salesforce's idiosyncrasies.

When I try to run my test in production (not in a sandbox), I get the following test failure in the generated WebhookTriggerTest:

System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out 
Stack Trace: Class.Webhook.callout: line 31, column 1

There's a couple of places that mention this error, here's one example: https://success.salesforce.com/issues_view?id=a1p30000000jbNMAAY

And my trigger code is here:

trigger BarkWebhookTrigger on Opportunity (after update,after insert) {

    String url = 'https://goodlord-bark.herokuapp.com/opportunity';

    String content = Webhook.jsonContent(Trigger.new, Trigger.old);

    Webhook.callout(url, content);

}

with everything else about the hook being default.

Please could I get some advice one what to do to work around this issue? I'm not sure how I'd modify the testcase to not perform an insert and callout...

Hello James, great article about Apex Trigger. I have a question regarding the call to external web service. How Apex Trigger sends the json data?

String url = 'https://echo-webhook.herokuapp.com/updatesite';
String content = Webhook.jsonContent(Trigger.new, Trigger.old);
Webhook.callout(url, content);

is it sending the data on the body by post, using json? or is sending the data using GET?

Thanks!

When I login via salesforce-webhook-creator to my salesforce instance the sobjects list is empty.

Hi there, when I try to create a webook, I get the following error

"System.DmlException: Insert failed. First exception on row 0; first error: FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION, Contact Type is required: [] && System.DmlException:"

Does it try to validate all objects before creating a webhook?

I have created a new web-hook for an opportunity. Then i went to my salesforce account and tagged a new product to an existing opportunity and got the webhook notification.
Then i have tagged a new contact to the same opportunity, But didn't receive any notification.
Same with custom-fields also.
We have some custom fields for an opportunity. I have modified those fields but i didn't get any web-hook notification.

I have use case to create web hook programatically . I have tried using ApexTrigger but it is not working . It is not displaying in your "https://salesforce-webhook-creator.herokuapp.com/app" and it is not giving callback to server url. can you tell me what is wrong ? Is there any way to create trigger programatically ?

Hello,
When I generate the webhook with the wizard is created a test too but for some reasons when I deploy the trigger seems to have error related with code coverage

triggers have 0% code coverage. Each trigger must have at least 1% code coverage.

If the tool generate the test too why I have code coverage = 0%
Thanks

Hi @jamesward

Have been using this for many years (via the hosted heroku site) and have had great success. I recently tried to set up webhooks on a Salesforce instance. It logged in successfully (to a production site) and allowed me to select the objects and then type in the details.

However, when I attempted to create the webhook, it gave the error "Can not create Apex Class on an active organization.".

Googling this error seems to indicate that you can't change a production site, but I'm not sure how it would apply to using your app. Can you please suggest if there's an issue within the app or a way around this?

Seems the drop-down listing for available Salesforce Objects included duplicates in my test, which resulted in the following error:

Error: [ngRepeat:dupes] Duplicates in a repeater are not allowed. Use 'track by' expression to specify unique keys. Repeater: sobject in sobjects, Duplicate key: string:Lease
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.17/ngRepeat/dupes?p0=sobject%20in%20sobjects&p1=string%3ALease

Looks like a great resource though, have you come across this issue?

I'm creating the test webhook (with https://echo-webhook.herokuapp.com/) in a Salesforce Sandbox. I'm the admin of the Sandbox, so I should have all necessary permissions.

When I log in, I get the error: [{"message":"sObject type 'ApexTrigger' is not supported.","errorCode":"INVALID_TYPE"}]
Then, when I try to create a webhook, for any object, I get the error, "The requested resource does not exist".

Is this a permissions problem? If so, what permissions do I need? If not, how do I solve this?

After I login via salesforce-webhook-creator to my Salesforce instance, the sobjects list is empty.

I'm using Salesforce Professional Edition, could this be the reason?

Here is the error message in browser console:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)

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Oops, an error occurred

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        This exception has been logged with id <strong>71ep04188</strong>.
    </p>

</body>

P.S. I'm aware of the existing similar issue, but it's closed and the details of the problem seem different from the one I'm experiencing.

I wanted to use this to send a webhook message when a custom object Project was created.

The test failed because Project which is (Child_Opportunity__c) has a required Parent_Opportunity__c field that was not getting properly filled in the mock() apex class function.

Likewise the Parent_Opportunity__c had a required field Contact__c so it couldn't be mocked for the same reason.

I ultimately fixed this by adding these lines to the mock function:

...
else if (f.getType() == DisplayType.REFERENCE) {
   if (f.getName() == 'Parent_Opportunity__c') {
       SObject po = mock('Opportunity');
       insert po;
       o.put(f.getName(), po.Id);
   }
   else if (f.getName() == 'Contact__c') {
       SObject c = mock('Contact');
       insert c;
       o.put(f.getName(), c.Id);
   }
}

This made it so that when I did mock('Child_Opportunity__c') it worked.

Ostensibly this could be generalized but I don't know enough about salesforce to go from Parent_Opportunity__c -> Opportunity or Contact__c -> Contact.

Annoyingly this solution caused another error to show up in the test:
System.CalloutException, "You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out"

After much annoying work I found that editing the body of testTrigger() to:

//Test.startTest();
insert o;
update o;
delete o;
Test.startTest();
Test.stopTest();

fixed this exception.

Just thought I'd create this issue in case anyone else was faced with similar problems.

Hi James,

I have cloned git hub project and make necessary configuration. After that when I ran application I am able to login into app, but after login I can't get page any other page. Even if I manually making other URL I can't get that page.

Please find below image every time I was getting after salesforce login.

The specific error message is

System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row 0 with id 00516000004vpaaAAA; first error: FIELD_INTEGRITY_EXCEPTION, Cannot change profile for current user: [ProfileId] && System.QueryException: List has no rows for assignment to SObject

The only javascript error is a 500 response to "https://salesforce-webhook-creator.herokuapp.com/webhooks", which only contains the previous error message.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi James,

Love what you built. It's allowed us to keep data in sync for one of our most important projects.

I'm now trying to set up an additional (similar) webhook call out, but for whatever reason, i'm getting this error. It seems like the code is expecting the webhook address I used earlier, and is failing as a result

Any idea how I can avoid this?

System.AssertException: Assertion Failed: Expected: https://vt9wy02642.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/webhook?id=21173308-ab26-47ba-9d21-307c29ff5ab0&action=pull, Actual: https://vt9wy02642.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/webhook?id=b40404f9-87d8-406a-b700-e1051f27254b&action=pullStack Trace:

Class.LoveCareGSPullWebhookTriggerTest.testTrigger: line 71, column 1

When I try to run locally I get the following crash when I try to navigate to the listening http server.

#sbt run
[info] Loading project definition from /home/betterlesson/crap/salesforce-webhook-creator/project
[info] Set current project to salesforce-webhook-creator (in build file:/home/betterlesson/crap/salesforce-webhook-creator/)
[info] Updating {file:/home/betterlesson/crap/salesforce-webhook-creator/}root...
[info] Resolving jline#jline;2.12.1 ...
[info] Done updating.

--- (Running the application, auto-reloading is enabled) ---

[info] p.c.s.NettyServer - Listening for HTTP on /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9000

(Server started, use Ctrl+D to stop and go back to the console...)

[info] Compiling 15 Scala sources and 1 Java source to /home/betterlesson/crap/salesforce-webhook-creator/target/scala-2.11/classes...
[info] JavaScript linting on 1 source(s)
[error] p.c.s.n.PlayRequestHandler - Exception caught in Netty
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class play.api.http.DefaultHttpErrorHandler$
	at play.core.server.Server$class.logExceptionAndGetResult$1(Server.scala:45)
	at play.core.server.Server$class.getHandlerFor(Server.scala:65)
	at play.core.server.NettyServer.getHandlerFor(NettyServer.scala:47)
	at play.core.server.netty.PlayRequestHandler.handle(PlayRequestHandler.scala:82)
	at play.core.server.netty.PlayRequestHandler.channelRead(PlayRequestHandler.scala:163)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:292)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:278)
	at com.typesafe.netty.http.HttpStreamsHandler.channelRead(HttpStreamsHandler.java:129)
	at com.typesafe.netty.http.HttpStreamsServerHandler.channelRead(HttpStreamsServerHandler.java:96)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:292)

Hi James,

First off thanks for this app! I was able to get this up and running on Heroku connected to a sandbox Salesforce instance. When creating a new webhook the app seems to be hitting Heroku's 30 second request limit. Is this something you have seen with your app? It seems to be timing out for me in the call to ForceUtil.deployZip. Is the perhaps a sandbox thing? Any tips for digging deeper?

Thanks for creating this webhook.

I've installed it and it seems to be mostly working, except sometimes I run into this error:

NodeWebhookOpportunitiesTrigger: execution of AfterUpdate

caused by: System.AsyncException: Future method cannot be called from a future or batch method: Webhook.callout(String, String)

It sounds like Salesforce doesn't allow a future method to be called from another future method or a batch job.

I'm going to try implementing this "defensive apex" pattern, but wondering if there's a better way.

public void defensiveFutureCall{
    if(System.isFuture() || System.isBatch()){
        regularSyncCall();
    } else {
        if(Limits.getFutureCalls() < Limits.getLimitFutureCalls()){
            doFutureCall();
        } else {
            // Do some explicit notification so that you know your @future call was denied
        }
    }
}

@future
public void doFutureCall(){
    regularSyncCall();
}

public void regularSyncCall(){
    // Put the code, that you'd otherwise put in your @future method, in here
}

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/102200/121206

When I click "Login via Salesforce" and try to login in my sandbox (even when I chose to "connect to a custom domain") it doesn't work and I am back to the salesforce-webhook-creator login page.

Just a suggestion: a README would be nice, detailing how to install this and set it up.

see https://github.com/jamesward/salesforce-webhook-creator

Hello, i have created webhook using the link https://salesforce-webhook-creator.herokuapp.com/app in my sandbox account. Since, i have created 3 of them for testing purpose, now i want to keep only one webhook. But i do not see the option from where i can delete the other two webhooks which are created.

Hi,

I'm trying to create a Outgoing Change Set and when I run the Apex tests for the webhook class I get the following:

System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out Stack Trace: Class.Webhook.callout: line 31, column 1

Any ideas?

Thanks for the work on this project!

Is there a way to set a different endpoint url when it's triggered from a production vs sandbox environment?

At the moment, i need to go and set the url in the trigger to be the production webhook endpoint before deploying the change set, and then reverting it back to sandbox for our staging environment setup with our salesforce sandbox.

Is this project open-source for use, modification and redistribution according to my personal requirements? I need to add delete webhook functionality