README: Why is your project better than simple_salesforce?

felixlindstrom / python-salesforce-api

Python Salesforce API wrapper made easy

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README: Why is your project better than simple_salesforce? #18

Closed guettli closed 3 years ago

guettli commented 3 years ago

I think many uses have this on their mind:

Why is python-salesforce-api better than simple_salesforce?

It would be very kind if you could answer this question in the README.

Thank you.

mattschofield commented 3 years ago

The quick answer is that simple_salesforce is only suitable if you want to use the SOAP APIs - it doesn't work for the REST APIs. This repo does.

felixlindstrom commented 3 years ago

Hello!

Sorry for super late reply!

I'm not sure I want to compare this project with simple_salesforce in the readme. I had some problems expending simple_salesforce, as well as mocking salesforce requests for tests, which is why I created this project!

The aim was to create a project that was a bit more object oriented and extendable :)

MattF-Afterpay commented 3 years ago

Just wanted to add - Simple Salesforce doesn't support Bulk API v2.0, this package does. Which has been a life saver for me!

felixlindstrom commented 3 years ago

Nice to hear @MattF-Afterpay! The bulk-api was one of the main reasons I went and created this, along with being able to extend the metadata-api to allow me to write automated deployment-processes!