inserting a contact in a before insert trigger for leads

Question

I want to insert a record in the database. If it meets certain criteria, it should be inserted in lead, if not, it should be added in contacts. I'm not able to achieve this. Its a before insert trigger on lead object. If the trigger completes properly, it gets updated in leads irrespective of its insertion in contacts. Please help..

Answer 1

You could do something like this in an after trigger. It has the downside of burning up an Id on Lead as each Lead needs to be inserted into the Database first

if (trigger.isInsert) {
    List<Lead> leadsToConvertToContacts = new List<Lead>();

    for(Lead l : Trigger.new) {
        if (l.SomeCriteria__c == 'Blah') {
            leadsToConvertToContacts.add(eDel);
         }
     }
     List<Contact> newContacts = new List<Contact>();
     for (Lead l : leadsToConvertToContacts) {
         // Create Contact from Lead
     DeleteLeadsClass dlc=new DeleteLeadClass();
     dlc.deleteLead(l.id);
     }   
           //  delete leadsToConvertToContacts;
    insert newContacts;
    // Or use upsert
}

And so i added an apex class called DeleteLeadsClass as follows: global class DeleteLeadsClass{

 public void deleteLead(String IDs){
 Lead lead1=[Select id from lead where id=:IDs];
 delete lead1;

} }

This works perfectly fine. :)

Answer 2

What you can do is..create after insert trigger.. check for condition if its true --> insert contact record and delete this instance from Lead.