Prelude Interactive

It took me way too long to figure out how to get SalesForce to export schema information on an object.  It seemed so tantalizingly easy – the salesforce.schema file is right there in the IDE but it’s a placeholder for a dynamically updated widget…that won’t export the XML it clearly contains.

So, I learned about Maps, SObjectFields, and some other stuff.  I might have even helped this person out, who posted today about nearly the same thing.

Map<string,Schema.SObjectField> M =
  Schema.SObjectType.Organization_Detail__c.fields.getMap();
Set s = M.keySet();
for (String s1 : s) {
  SObjectField f = M.get(s1);
  Schema.DescribeFieldResult d = f.getDescribe();
  System.debug(logginglevel.INFO,d.getName() + ',' + d.getLabel());
}

Execute the above as anonymous, and you should get a comma separated set of names and labels.  I’m in no mood to figure out how to suppress the 20081127030828.685:AnonymousBlock: line 6, column 3: that it poops out, so I’ll trim it down in TextPad.