Find out the default record type of any Object in Apex

Question

I've to find out the default record type of an Object so that I can use in Apex to insert/update records.

Found out that it is at the user level(user profile based). Is there any other way which I can use to find out the default record type of an object.

It makes sense why it is at the user level, but just out of curiosity I'm looking for another option to get irrespective of the user profile.

Answer 1

You can use apex describe to get the record type details of any object. This information will be correct for the running user.

Schema.DescribeSObjectResult dsr = Account.SObjectType.getDescribe();
Schema.RecordTypeInfo defaultRecordType;
for(Schema.RecordTypeInfo rti : dsr.getRecordTypeInfos()) {
    if(rti.isDefaultRecordTypeMapping()) {
        defaultRecordType = rti;
    }
}