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Andy.xu Metadata api CRUD-based
i want to add CustomField to standard object (Account)，code(Metadata api CRUD-based) :
CustomObject co = new CustomObject();
co.setFullName("Account");
CustomField nf = new CustomField();
nf.setType(FieldType.Text);
nf.setLabel("yy");
co.setNameField(nf);
UpdateMetadata updateMetadata = new UpdateMetadata();
updateMetadata.setMetadata(co);
Like thi,after run ,Exception come out：
Exception in thread "main" AxisFault
faultCode: {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION
faultSubcode:
faultString: null: Invalid fullName, must end in __c
can anyone help me....?and thanks!
If you want to create a custom object, you have to do something like :
CustomObject co = new CustomObject();
co.setFullName(objectName+"__c");
co.setDeploymentStatus(DeploymentStatus.Deployed);
co.setDescription("Created by the WSC using the Metadata API");
co.setLabel(displayName);
co.setPluralLabel(displayName+"s");
co.setSharingModel(SharingModel.ReadWrite);
co.setEnableActivities(true);
If you want to add a custom field to the object defined above, you have to do something like :
// create the text id field
CustomField field = new CustomField();
field.setType(FieldType.Text);
field.setDescription("The custom object identifier field");
field.setLabel(displayName);
field.setFullName(objectName+"__c");
// add the field to the custom object
co.setNameField(field);
Here you are creating a custom object and then adding a custom field to it. If you wanna add a custom field to a standard object, you have to access that object. I don't know whether this would work or not but you have to do something like,
CustomObject co = new CustomObject(FullName='Account');
And then use above defined custom field definition.
Please let me know too. I am just curious !!
I just had the same issue with adding a new field and resolved it by just creating the CustomField rather than updating the Account standard object to have a custom field.
CustomField cf = new CustomField(); cf.fullName = "Account.testField__c"; cf.type = FieldType.Text; cf.label = "Test Field"; cf.length = 50; cf.lengthSpecified = true; AsyncResult[] ars = metadataService.create (new CustomField[]{ cf } );The syntax here will be a bit different as I'm working in C# rather than Java, but the idea should be the same.
Notice how the fullName includes both the new fields name and the parent objects name.