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Pretty new to development, so I'm probably missing something easy. From advice on this site, I'm trying to move my org's triggers into a trigger handler to be more manageable. I've started converting my triggers into classes, however when I try to call a method of one of these classes, I'm getting a Constructor not defined error.

Here is my constructor:

public class AddProductFromOfferingId { 

    Map<Id, Lead> newLeads;

    public AddProductFromOfferingId(Map<Id, Lead> newTriggerLeads)
    {
        newLeads = newTriggerLeads;
    }
}

And here's where I try to call the constructor:

public void beforeInsert(SObject so)
    {
        // Cast the SObject to an Lead
        Lead theLead = (Lead)so;

        if(theLead.Offering_ID__c != null)
        {
            AddProductFromOfferingId addProd = new AddProductFromOfferingId(Trigger.newMap);
        }

The full error is: Constructor not defined: [AddProductFromOfferingId].<Constructor>(Map<Id, SOBject>).

In the constructor, I've named it AddProductFromOfferingId, requiring one Id, Lead map to be passed in. In my TriggerHandler class (second code snippet), I'm passing in a map. Can I not use Trigger.newMap in this way?

Update:

Thanks @BrianMansfield, your comment gave me what I needed. Adding the following to the handler class fixed my issue:

Map<Id, Lead> newMapFromTrigger = (Map<Id, Lead>) Trigger.newMap;
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  • Where is beforeInsert being called from? It's probably because you've defined the constructor to take in a Map<Id, Lead> and you're passing it a Map<Id, base sObject>...try explicitly casting Trigger.newMap to a Map<Id, Lead> Oct 4, 2016 at 21:29
  • beforeInsert is being called in my LeadHandler class, which is where I plan to call all triggers-turned-classes. When I try to set Trigger.newMap to an <Id, Lead> map, I get an error saying the types don't match, so I believe you're right! Just need to figure out how to get Trigger.newMap to change into an <Id, Lead> map instead of an <Id, SObject> map.
    – krisuvik
    Oct 4, 2016 at 21:36

1 Answer 1

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A bit of a way around it but you can cast the Map<ID,sObject> to the Map<ID,Lead> as follows:

//This lines could simply be your trigger.newMap records, query is just an example
Map<ID,sObject> l = New Map<ID,sObject>([Select ID From Lead limit 1]);

//Actual conversion here
Map<ID,Lead> a = New Map<ID,Lead>((Lead[])l.values());

BUT, I would change (if it makes sense) the constructor to:

AddProductFromOfferingId(Map<ID,sObject> newTriggerLeads){
     //If null or no records, nothing to do
     if(newTriggerLeads == null || newTriggerLeads.isEmpty()) return;

     //If we have lead records cast to a list of leads and do what we need to
     if(newTriggerLeads[0].getsObjectType() == Lead.sObjectType()){
          Lead[] theLeads = (List<Leads>)newTriggerLeads.values();
     }else{ //Not leads, do nothing
        return;
     }

}

Or something like that

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  • ?? why is Account showing up in your first code sample? typo?
    – cropredy
    Oct 4, 2016 at 22:18
  • @cropredy - oops. I had sample as Account and was trying to change it to lead when posting. Did not get them all. Should be good now, thanks
    – Eric
    Oct 4, 2016 at 22:19
  • Thanks @Eric! Would you still need to include the line if(newTriggerLeads[0].getObjectType() == Lead.sObjectType()) if this is only called on a Lead Handler class? For example, if I have a handler class for each SObject, and this method is only called for leads, that shouldn't be necessary right? Just trying to make sure I understand!
    – krisuvik
    Oct 5, 2016 at 14:30
  • @krisuvik - correct
    – Eric
    Oct 5, 2016 at 16:38

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