How do you ensure API security and avoid data leakage

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| By Navneet Kashyap

Ensuring API security and preventing data leakage is critical in any Salesforce integration. Whether you’re exposing or consuming APIs, you must follow best practices around authentication, authorization, encryption, data validation, and monitoring.  Key Strategies to Secure Salesforce APIs & Prevent

Chargify | Single php function for all Chargify API calls

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Following single function can be used for all Chargify API calls whether API calls belong to test site (site for test transactions) or live site (live transactions): <?php function sendRequest($uri, $method, $data = ”) { $apiKey = ‘XOTUsyy7pJ6yLgmMa233AtJ’; $subdomain =

Java | How to Create Entities from existing database in eclipse (ubuntu)

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Follow steps below to generate JPA Entity classes automatically in Eclipse: Step 1: Create a simple java project and convert it to JPA Project using following steps: 1.1.  Right Click on your Project. 1.2.  Select Configure option from the menu.

javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with padded cipher

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We were getting following exception when trying to decrypt data using Cipher: javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with padded cipher Actually we were using three layers of encryption with three different secret keys. Everything was

Salesforce | How to get Salesforce lookup field object id using javascript

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Suppose we have the following lookup field on a VF page: <apex:inputField id=”owner” value=”{!Event.Ownerid}”> </apex:inputField> To get value of above lookup field using field id in javascript, if we directly use document.getElementById(‘{!$Component.owner}’).value, it will return the text that is displayed

Salesforce | [message:protected] => INVALID_LOGIN: Invalid username, password, security token; or user locked out

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While upserting records using SFDC php API we were facing following exception : [message:protected] => INVALID_LOGIN: Invalid username, password, security token; or user locked out. This exception was showing up frequently when we were upserting records using PHP API. The

Linux | Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) without password

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When implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for linux server with ssh-key and google-authenticator only with no password it was prompting us to enter password for user but we wanted authentication without password. Steps to solve this: 1.  Install google authenticator