Force.com Streaming API Developer Guide

Getting Started with Force.com Streaming API
Introducing Streaming API
Quick Start Using Workbench
Prerequisites
Step 1: Create an Object
Step 2: Create a PushTopic
Step 3: Subscribe to the PushTopic Channel
Step 4: Test the PushTopic Channel
Code Examples
Using Streaming API
Generic Streaming
Reference
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Step 3: Subscribe to the PushTopic Channel

In this step, you subscribe to the channel that you created with the PushTopic record in the previous step.

Workbench is a free, open source, community-supported tool (see the Help page in Workbench). Salesforce provides a hosted instance of Workbench for demonstration purposes only—Salesforce recommends that you do not use this hosted instance of Workbench to access data in a production database. If you want to use Workbench for your production database, you can download, host, and configure it using your own resources. You can download Workbench from https://github.com/ryanbrainard/forceworkbench/releases.

Important

  1. In your browser, navigate to https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Workbench.
  2. For Environment, select Production.
  3. For API Version, select 36.0.

    Workbench supports Streaming API in versions 36.0 and earlier only.

    Note

  4. Accept the terms of service, and click Login with Salesforce.
  5. After you successfully establish a connection to your database, you land on the Select page.
  6. Select queries | Streaming Push Topics.
  7. In the Push Topic field, select InvoiceStatementUpdates.
  8. Click Subscribe.

    You’ll see the connection and response information and a response like “Subscribed to /topic/InvoiceStatementUpdates.”

Keep this browser window open and make sure that the connection doesn’t time out. You’ll be able to see the event notifications triggered by the InvoiceStatement record you create in the next step.