How to generate a UPC-A barcode as a PNG file in Salesforce Apex

Barcodes are a crucial part of many businesses, but they can be quite difficult to generate, especially when using Apex. But don’t worry! I have just the thing for you: an API that can generate and read many types of barcodes. And to sweeten the deal even further, it works after just a few minutes of setup. Let’s get started.

First download this zip here and copy the client folder into your project.

https://github.com/Cloudmersive/Cloudmersive.APIClient.Apex.Barcode/archive/master.zip

Now we can call generateBarcodeUPCA:

SwagGenerateBarcodeApi api = new SwagGenerateBarcodeApi();

SwagClient client = api.getClient();

// Configure API key authorization: Apikey

ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) client.getAuthentication('Apikey');

Apikey.setApiKey('YOUR API KEY');

Map<String, Object> params = new Map<String, Object>{

'value' => 'value_example'

};

try {

// cross your fingers

Blob result = api.generateBarcodeUPCA(params);

System.debug(result);

} catch (Swagger.ApiException e) {

// ...handle your exceptions

}

And look at that, we are already finished. Talk about a breeze.