Why can I not add a “Description” when creating a new Lead from Code?

Question

I made a small Java Project to connect to Salesforce and get Leads and Create some new. Got into a problem of creating a new Lead with the "description" property even if i saw the property exists in the Lead Object. I don't understand this, really. Am i missing something?

This works:

JSONObject lead = new JSONObject();
        lead.put("FirstName", "Mike");
        lead.put("LastName", "Smith");
        lead.put("Company", "test.com");

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This does not work:

JSONObject lead = new JSONObject();
        lead.put("FirstName", "Mike");
        lead.put("LastName", "Smith");
        lead.put("Company", "test.com");
        lead.put("Description", "random text here");

This is what i can see on debug:

[DEBUG] 55:03(Wire.java:wire:72)
http-outgoing-1 << "  "message" : "No such column 'Description' on sobject of type Lead",[\n]"

[DEBUG] 55:03(Wire.java:wire:72)
http-outgoing-1 << "  "errorCode" : "INVALID_FIELD"[\n]"

But i looked in the Lead object properties. It's there.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I googled it more and finally found an explanation. I cannot add a Description to a view because it's limit length is too long. Ugh. Not cool.