How to get all field names of an object in apex?
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Which is the parent of any object in apex?
Object (ANY) is the parent of all objects, and you can’t really “do” anything with it. You need to cast it to a subtype (Boolean, Map, List, String, whatever) to get useful functionality with it. You can use instanceOf to detect the runtime value of an Object.
Do you need to hard code an object name in apex?
You don’t need to hard code the Object name as you have specified, you can indeed do it dynamically, for example: The docs suggest you use the newer Schema.describeSObjects (List) method – that lets you pass one or more names of objects as a list, and get back the results.
Is there way to dynamically get fields for a sobject?
It states in Salesforce Apex docs that I can get fields for a particular SObject (standard or custom) in the following way: But this requires hardcoding. as I need to hardcode the API name of the SObject : Schema.SObjectType. Is there a way to access all fields on an SObject dynamically without hard coding?
How to get all field names in Salesforce?
Issue is datatype is displaying as “REFERENCE” for all below default salesforce fields also. I want to have to replace REFERNCE as lookup other than like above fields.
How to get field values from an object?
I have a Select Option in Vf where all the “Account” fields will be available. The selected field’s API name will be set in a get set “selectedField” accMap.get (acc.selectedField); // Here is the problem, I need to get the value from the map based on the field selected by the user.
How to create accmap based on selected field?
The basic idea is i am constructing the accMap here based on user selected field (Select Option). This is how it goes.. if (accMap.get (acc.selectedField) == NULL) { // I get an error here as “selectedField” does not exist in Account Object. This “selectedField” is a field which i get dynamically from the User input