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platform-salesforce-connect-adapter-generate

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Custom Apex adapter generation for Salesforce Connect — connects any external REST API to Salesforce as live, queryable External Objects without ETL or copying. TRIGGER when: connecting a non-standard external API, writing a DataSource.Provider/Connection or a `.cls`/`.cls-meta.xml` custom adapter class, adding a `.namedCredential-meta.xml` for the adapter's callout, surfacing external data as records, \"custom adapter\", \"ExternalId field\", \"DataSource namespace\", or whether custom Apex fits. DO NOT TRIGGER when: a standard adapter is already configured (OData, Snowflake), for copy/bulk-sync (use platform-data-manage), or for Apex callouts outside Connect (use platform-apex-generate or integration-connectivity-generate).

When to use

• **In scope:** Generating `DataSource.Connection` and `DataSource.Provider` Apex classes, Named Credential metadata, deployment via sf CLI, and step-by-step Setup registration guidance for any REST API. **Out of scope:** Configuring standar…

When not to use

• standard adapter configuration (OData, Snowflake)
• copy or bulk-sync data
• Apex callouts outside Connect
• configuring standard adapters (OData, Snowflake, GraphQL)
• generating External Data Source metadata file
• writing Apex that calls external APIs outside the Salesforce Connect framework
• real-time pushed data or external event subscriptions
• sync or copy data for analytics or bulk processing

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