Salesforce

Backend classes

For Django, choose from these class paths for AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. For other integrations, use the same class paths in the framework-specific backend setting.

Backend name	Class path
salesforce-oauth2	social_core.backends.salesforce.SalesforceOAuth2
salesforce-oauth2-sandbox	social_core.backends.salesforce.SalesforceOAuth2Sandbox

Salesforce uses OAuth v2 for Authentication, check the official docs.

• Create an app following the steps in the Defining Connected Apps docs.

• Fill Client Id and Client Secret values in the settings:

  SOCIAL_AUTH_SALESFORCE_OAUTH2_KEY = '<App UID>'
  SOCIAL_AUTH_SALESFORCE_OAUTH2_SECRET = '<App secret>'
  

• Add the backend to the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting:

  AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
      ...
      'social_core.backends.salesforce.SalesforceOAuth2',
      ...
  )
  

• Then you can start authentication from your templates with a POST form:

  <form method="post" action="{% url 'social:begin' 'salesforce-oauth2' %}">
      {% csrf_token %}
      <button type="submit">Sign in with Salesforce</button>
  </form>
  

If using the sandbox mode:

• Fill these settings instead:

  SOCIAL_AUTH_SALESFORCE_OAUTH2_SANDBOX_KEY = '<App UID>'
  SOCIAL_AUTH_SALESFORCE_OAUTH2_SANDBOX_SECRET = '<App secret>'
  

• And this backend:

  AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
      ...
      'social_core.backends.salesforce.SalesforceOAuth2Sandbox',
      ...
  )
  

• Then you can start authentication from your templates with a POST form:

  <form method="post" action="{% url 'social:begin' 'salesforce-oauth2-sandbox' %}">
      {% csrf_token %}
      <button type="submit">Sign in with Salesforce Sandbox</button>
  </form>