Salesforce Destination

05.26.10

Problem: You need to submit salesforce sObjects including custom fields to many different organization’s salseforce instances.

Solution: Use the Partner WSDL, it's loosely typed and can be used with all organizations and  whatever customizations they have.

 

Code:

//Base class 
public class SalesforceBase 
{ 
    private readonly List<SalesforceCustomField> _customFields = new List<SalesforceCustomField>(); 
    private readonly XmlDocument _document = new XmlDocument(); 
    private readonly List<XmlElement> _elements = new List<XmlElement>(); 
    private readonly string _type; 
 
    protected SalesforceBase(string type) 
    { 
        _type = type; 
    } 
 
    public string Type 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            return _type; 
        } 
    } 
 
    public IEnumerable<SalesforceCustomField> CustomFields 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            return _customFields; 
        } 
    } 
 
    public XmlElement[] Any 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            return _elements.ToArray(); 
        } 
    } 
 
    public void AddCustomField(SalesforceCustomField customField) 
    { 
        UpdateElements(customField.FieldName, customField.Value); 
        _customFields.Add(customField); 
    } 
 
    protected void UpdateElements(string name, string value) 
    { 
        var element = _elements.Find(ele => ele.Name == name); 
        if (element != null) 
        { 
            element.InnerText = value; 
        } 
        else 
        { 
            element = _document.CreateElement(name); 
            element.InnerText = value; 
            _elements.Add(element); 
        } 
    } 
} 
//Implement Base 
public class SalesforceContact : SalesforceBase 
{ 
    public SalesforceContact() : base("Contact") { } 
 
    private string _firstName; 
    public string FirstName 
    { 
        get { return _firstName; } 
        set 
        { 
            if (value != null) 
            { 
                UpdateElements("FirstName", value); 
                _firstName = value; 
            } 
        } 
    } 
} 
//Send It 
SForceService.create( new sObject(){Any = contact.Any, type = contact.Type});

Problem/Solution

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