How to reference conflicted SObject Name?

Question

It seems that there are two different Location objects:

• global class Location extends SObject
• global class System.Location

Because System is the default namespace, I am not sure how to refer to the SObject Location in my Apex code.

Example (in Location trigger):

Map<Id, Location> newLocations = (Map<Id, Location>) Trigger.newMap;

Incompatible types since an instance of Map<Id,SObject> is never an instance of Map<Id,System.Location>

Is there any way for me to reference the Location SObject?

Answer 1

Whenever there's a conflict, you can usually rely on Schema to help you sort things out.

Map<Id, Schema.Location> locations = (Map<Id, Schema.Location>)Trigger.newMap;

However, this won't work if you define a class named "Schema", so make sure that you never, ever do that, unless you want to lose all access to the Schema methods, since it cannot be resolved any other way.