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eliotstock2 Hi there.
I'm trying to build a tool for monitoring various records udring QA. Is there any way to query for an SObject knowing only its Id and not its type?
Thanks,
Eliot Stock.
You can get to the objectname if you just know it's key prefix (3 first characters of the Id).
Drop the following in an anonymous block and you'll see what I mean :
Map<String, Schema.SObjectType> res = Schema.getGlobalDescribe(); for(String sotkey:res.keySet()) { Schema.DescribeSObjectResult dso = res.get(sotkey).getDescribe(); System.debug(dso.getKeyPrefix() + ' : ' + dso.getName()); }
From here it's easy to create a Map with as keys the prefixes and as values the object names. You can then simply do a map.get(prefix) which will give you back the object name you can use in your dynamic query.
David
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I don't think so, BUT you can work out the object by looking at the first three characters of the URL - so an Id like 006R0000004Rnlx is always a contribution I believe.
So you could create a lookup table in QA that stores the object name and the first three characters of the ID, and work it out that way to create some dynamic SOQL...
You can get to the objectname if you just know it's key prefix (3 first characters of the Id).
Drop the following in an anonymous block and you'll see what I mean :
Map<String, Schema.SObjectType> res = Schema.getGlobalDescribe(); for(String sotkey:res.keySet()) { Schema.DescribeSObjectResult dso = res.get(sotkey).getDescribe(); System.debug(dso.getKeyPrefix() + ' : ' + dso.getName()); }
From here it's easy to create a Map with as keys the prefixes and as values the object names. You can then simply do a map.get(prefix) which will give you back the object name you can use in your dynamic query.
David