The Fieldmap API and UI that salesforce_api provides could be useful for other integrations where Drupal interacts with data objects on other 3rd party services, to create import/export scripts from, for example, CSV files, or conversion scripts, such as flexinode nodes to CCK nodes, CCK nodes to webform submission, etc.

Which parts could be abstracted into a more generic Fieldmap API on which Salesforce could be dependent?

I'm thinking;
* hook_fieldmap
* hook_fieldmap_*
* generic get functions for object structures, specific objects & fieldmaps
* caching of this data if it's from a remote party
* the fieldmap CRUD UIs.
* the mapping UI
* possibly more

Thoughts?

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node_import has a similar interface for mapping CSV columns to drupal object fields.
might be fruitful to take a look at node_import, but i don't have any concrete ideas for integrating / mimicking node_import functionality vis-a-vis salesforce.

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