[SalesForce] access Remote Site List from Apex

Our application makes outbound connections to different remote sites, and installs a short list of those sites as part of the Package Installation process.

One of our custom objects is a list of accounts to access on those servers (username, password, hostname). We just ran into a problem where someone mistyped a server hostname when adding an account.

I'd like to have a trigger before insert and modify that throws an error if the user tries to add an entry for a host that isn't in the Remote Site List. The error will state that they need to either change the hostname or add the site to the Remote Site List.

The trigger won't be able to make a callout, otherwise I could just try calling out and trapping the exception. Even if I can't walk the list of Remote Sites, it'd be great to call an API that tells me whether a given URL is in there or not. For example, if HttpRequest.setEndpoint() threw an exception without having to call Http.send().

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The remote sites list is not currently exposed in Apex.

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[SalesForce] Access MetadataAPI via JavaScript

You can actually call the metadata API from JavaScript exceptionally easy. I threw this together in response to this question:

var binding = new XMLHttpRequest(), payload = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-Instance"> <soapenv:Header> <urn:SessionHeader xmlns:urn="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata"> <urn:sessionId>{!$Api.Session_ID}</urn:sessionId> </urn:SessionHeader> </soapenv:Header> <soapenv:Body> <createMetadata xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata"> <metadata xsi:type="ns2:RemoteSiteSetting" xmlns:ns2="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata"> <fullName>This Server</fullName> <description>The API endpoint</description> <disableProtocolSecurity>false</disableProtocolSecurity> <isActive>true</isActive> <url>{0}</url> </metadata> </createMetadata> </soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>'.replace('{0}',window.top.location.protocol+'//'+window.top.location.hostname+'/');
    binding.open('POST', window.top.location.protocol+'//'+window.top.location.hostname+'/services/Soap/m/31.0');
    binding.setRequestHeader('SOAPAction','""');
    binding.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
    binding.onreadystatechange = function() { if(this.readyState==4) handleResponse(); }
    binding.send(payload);

Everything appears to work (I was getting some odd Invalid Session ID when I tried to grab it from the cookie directly, so the merge field should fix that). Feedback welcome. Also, you'll want to add the "base" version as well (use getSalesforceBaseUrl() in Apex Code to discover the correct URL to use).

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