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I am creating an application for Salesforce Integration. I am trying to retrieve the installed packages from a particular account as I am able to do by using APEX class but now I want to retrieve the installed packages using PARTNERWSDL. Can any pleae help me in this regards. Thanks in advance.

MetaDataWSDL.ListMetadataQuery query = new ListMetadataQuery(); 
query.type = "InstalledPackage"; 
double asOfVersion = 29.0; 
MetadataService mBinding = new MetadataService(); 
mBinding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId = binding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId;  
FileProperties[] lmr = mBinding.listMetadata(new ListMetadataQuery[] { query }, asOfVersion);

Here i am getting the value as null. and I have specified the version as 29.0. May i know how can i know my version number when i am using OAuth authencation.

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  • Do you mean that you want to access data from objects and fields defined in the installed packages using the Partner WSDL?
    – Keith C
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 10:00
  • thanks for your reply. YES I want to know what are the objects and fields specified in the installed packages as well as all the package names that are installed under a account. Like I have installed some packages from appexchange.salesforce.com and now I want to retrieve all those packages in my application. So what should be the namespace and class for getting the installed packages.
    – Himanshu Jain
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 10:15
  • or if there would be any SOQL query for finding the installed managed application. Like when we are using MetadataAPI we are executing the .request() with RetrieveRequest object.
    – Himanshu Jain
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 13:49
  • I suspect (but am not sure) that the MetaData API is the appropriate one to obtain information about installed packages so you may have to generate client code for both APIs.
    – Keith C
    Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 13:55

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The Salesforce Metadata API is the only API that will do this for you. You can use the listMetadata operation to accomplish this, here is a previous question with answer detailing this, How to get a list of the managed packages (including version numbers) installed in an org?. If your interested in doing this from Apex, you can find a library that exposes the listMetadata method to Apex here.

Note: This applies only to managed packages installed in the org

Regarding update Java Code in Question

It looks like your not initialising mBinding.SessionHeaderValue? If you take a look at how this variable is defined it is likely you need to construct an object to assign to it, then assign the session Id. Something like this...

MetadataService mBinding = new MetadataService(); 
mBinding.SessionHeaderValue = new MetadataService.SessionHeader(); // < Something like this?
mBinding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId = binding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId;
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  • Thanks for your reply. I have tried the above process but I am getting the record as null. kindly check the below mentioned code What actually i did :- MetaDataWSDL.ListMetadataQuery query = new ListMetadataQuery(); query.type = "InstalledPackage"; double asOfVersion = 29.0; MetadataService mBinding = new MetadataService(); mBinding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId = binding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId; FileProperties[] lmr = mBinding.listMetadata(new ListMetadataQuery[] { query }, asOfVersion);
    – Himanshu Jain
    Commented Mar 27, 2014 at 7:16
  • Its a bit hard to read as a comment tbh, perhaps you can update your answer? Also did you see the Java example in this answer, salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/13561/…?
    – Andrew Fawcett
    Commented Mar 27, 2014 at 15:58
  • I have updated the code in my question. May i know how can we retrieve the version number
    – Himanshu Jain
    Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 4:07
  • You don't say what line the null point exception is occurring on, but I've updated the answer with what i suspect is the case.
    – Andrew Fawcett
    Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 11:05
  • Thanks for your reply. I am already using that line, as I am not getting any exception the problem is that I am unable to retrieve the any value as I am having 1 package installed in my account. FileProperties[] lmr = mBinding.listMetadata(new ListMetadataQuery[] { query }, asOfVersion) This lmr variable is returning the null value as it is unable to find any value
    – Himanshu Jain
    Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 11:47

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