As part of a POC, someone had created a big object called StatusTracking__b
. After a few stuff-ups they ended up keeping StatusTracking3__b
in the system.
The time has come for things to get refactored and I thought I'd go back and use a proper API name for this object, so I tried to deploy a new metadata definition for StatusTracking__b
. The platform complained with:
objects/StatusTracking__b.object -- Error: That object name is already in use.
I have gone through all things - metadata API, enterprise WSDL, describes, SOQL queries and I can assure you that this object does not exists - at least form my perspective.
Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get('StatusTracking__b').getDescribe();
System.NullPointerException: Attempt to de-reference a null object
To confirm this I created a brand new big object Boris__b
and also created a bunch of records. Then I deleted this object (and erased it). Second time around I was able to deploy the metadata definition using the same API name Boris__b
without any issues.
Is this an intermittent bug with big objects or is there something that I could be missing? Where else could the object name be used, without the actual definition (object doesn't exist)?