Beatbox

is a minimal dependency python library for accessing the salesforce.com web services API.

Its primary dependency is on xmltramp, an xml parser library that exposes access to the xml document in an easy to use manner.

Beatbox is released under the GPL v2.

http://www.pocketsoap.com/beatbox/

Beatbox requires Python 2.7.9 or later or Python 3.4 or later. Thanks hynekcer for the Python 3 support!

Installation (Python 3)

The Beatbox3 PyPI is stale and not Python 3 compatible (refer to issue #46).

To ensure that you are using the latest python3 compatible version please install using pip syntax:

Command line:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/superfell/Beatbox@master#egg=beatbox

In requirements.txt:

-e git+https://github.com/superfell/Beatbox@master#egg=beatbox

About Salesforce API retirement

During 2022 Salesforce are planning to retire API versions v7 through v20. Also planned for 2023 is the retirement of versions v21 through v30. If you're on an older version of Beatbox you'll need to update to the latest (which uses API v36) in order for your integrations to continue to work. You may also need to update code for API calls where the response structure has changed from the version you're currently using e.g. DescribeGlobal changed significantly somewhere around API v16.

About TLS 1.2 Support

During 2016 Salesforce plans to disable TLS 1.0 support on their service. In order for Beatbox to continue working you need to use a python environment that supports TLS 1.2. To do that you need to use Python 2.7.9 (or any newer 2.x version) and your OpenSSL version needs to be 1.0.1 or greater. You can run python --version to check your python version and python -c "import ssl; print ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION" to check the version of OpenSSL that python is using.

Note that if you're on OSX, its bundled with an older version of openSSL than is required. If you see an error similar to ssl.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure or UNSUPPORTED_CLIENT: TLS 1.0 has been disabled in this organization. Please use TLS 1.1 or higher when connecting to Salesforce using https. you need to update your python and/or OpenSSL versions.

About PyPi/Beatbox

This version of Beatbox is not fully compatible with the version at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beatbox/32.1 See issue #43 for all the details.