Task-01-FreshSales-CRM-API

You are required to develop a CRUD (Create – Read – Update – Delete) application in NodeJs using ExpressJS framework in this round. Basically, you will use FreshSales CRM API to create a Contact in FreshSales CRM, Retrieve Contact, Update Contact, Delete Contact.

Required Resources/ Documentation

• FreshSales API Or (Zoho CRM API) documentation FreshSales API Documentation (Create a sample account with some dummy data for FREE here and get the API Key from the settings)
• NodeJS server NodeJS Documentation
• ExpressJS ExpressJS Documentation

Data format for all the endpoints should be in JSON

1. Create one endpoint [POST /createContact] to create a new contact in CRM or Database.

   • Accept the following parameters in the REST API call:
     • first_name
     • last_name
     • email
     • mobile_number
     • data_store (possible values: 'CRM' or 'DATABASE')
   • Based on the data_store value, create the contact in either 'CRM' or 'DATABASE'.

   API:

   POST /createContact(first_name, last_name, email, mobile_number, data_store)

2. Create one endpoint [GET /getContact] to retrieve the contact for a given contact_id.

   • Accept the following parameters in the REST API call:
     • contact_id
     • data_store (possible values: 'CRM' or 'DATABASE')
   • Based on the data_store value, get the contact from either 'CRM' or 'DATABASE'.

   API:

   POST /getContact(contact_id, data_store)

3. Create one endpoint [POST /updateContact] for a given contact_id to update its email and mobile_number.

   • Accept the following parameters in the REST API call:
     • contact_id
     • new_email
     • new_mobile_number
     • data_store (possible values: 'CRM' or 'DATABASE')
   • Based on the data_store value, update the contact in either 'CRM' or 'DATABASE'.

   API:

   POST /updateContact(contact_id, new_email, new_mobile_number, data_store)

4. Create one endpoint [POST /deleteContact] for a given contact_id.

   • Accept the following parameters in the REST API call:
     • contact_id
     • data_store (possible values: 'CRM' or 'DATABASE')
   • Based on the data_store value, delete the contact from either 'CRM' or 'DATABASE'.

   API:

   POST /deleteContact(contact_id, data_store)