Announcing a golang client for Bayeux (long polling): https://github.com/zph/bayeux.

I recently found myself needing to integrate Salesforce data into a production system. Which gave me the opportunity to implement a client for Bayeux protocol based on the Salesforce docs, Stack Overflow undocumented features, a rough python implementation from Github’s Gists, and Faye Ruby gem.

The protocol enables a client to subscribe for realtime updates based on a predetermined query using Salesforce’s SQL type language.

For the small number of realtime queries supported by Salesforce API, this works wonderfully.

Usage example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	bay "github.com/zph/bayeux"
)

func main() {
	b := bay.Bayeux{}
	creds := bay.GetSalesforceCredentials()
	c := b.TopicToChannel(creds, "topicName")
	for {
		select {
		case e := <-c:
			fmt.Printf("TriggerEvent Received: %+v", e)
		}
	}
}

Check out the library here: https://github.com/zph/bayeux