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Salesforce allows you to describe sObjects either by using sObject or field tokens, or the describeSObjects Schema method.

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Drawbacks of using SObjectField.toString() over SObjectField.getDescribe().getName()

I often do '' + field where field is an SObjectField to get the field's API name. I like that much more than the clunky verbose field.getDescribe().getName(). So is there a reason I should not do it …
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Apex method to find out if SObject is a setup object

Regular SObjects and Setup Objects can't be mixed in DML otherwise you'll experience a Mixed Dml Exception. How can Apex code find out if a given SObjectType is such a setup object? System.assert(is …
Robert Sösemann's user avatar
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Test if a field is available on arbitrary SObject record without using Describe calls

I have many Custom Objects in my package that have a common custom field Version__c. One part of my app serializes and deserializes records to/from Json. While deserializing I want to change this Vers …
Robert Sösemann's user avatar
2 votes
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Find out if field is of type Currency without consuming Describe's?

Parts of my code copy hundreds of arbitrary fields of an arbitrary object to another object. Before copying currency fields I want to do some fx conversion. How can I find out if a field is a currenc …
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