Introducing Apex REST APIs as Agent Actions in Salesforce
Please visit here for more details - https://ayaninsights.com/guestblogs/apex-rest-apis-as-agent-in-salesforce/ In this blog, I explore how Salesforce developers can transform existing Apex REST APIs into Agentforce actions, allowing AI agents to use custom business logic directly within Salesforce. The article begins with an introduction to OpenAPI, a standard format used to describe REST APIs in a machine-readable structure. An OpenAPI document defines available endpoints, supported operations, required inputs, response formats, and expected behavior. I also explain the differences between YAML and JSON, the two common formats used for creating these API specifications. The blog then covers Apex REST APIs and how developers use annotations such as @RestResource , @HttpGet , @HttpPost , @HttpPut , and @HttpDelete to expose custom Salesforce functionality as REST endpoints. I walk through the process of generating an OpenAPI document from an Apex REST class using Agentforce for Develo...