Code to update field & Calling creatobject(), or creatfield() method

[certinia]

Code to update field & Calling creatobject(), or creatfield() method

[afawcett]

Great, thanks for the feedback. Are you using the MetadataService.cls from the repo or have you generated your own? If you generated your own perhaps the class name is not the same? You should have a class called MetadataService with an inner class call MetadataWithContent inside it. If you have generated your own please attach it and I will take a look. I only give the instructions at the bottom incase you want to generate again from the WSDL in the future, the class in the repo is currently the latest. Good luck and let me know how you get on! I would love to know more about how you are making use of this! Cheers!

[afawcett]

Take a look at the MetadataServiceExamples.cls for a createObject example. As regards handling the AsyncResult you can see how I am doing this via the MetadataServiceController and related page, basically using an apex:actionPoller.

[mohit-address]

Hi .
Yes i created my own class from wsdl from scratch .
i just compared it with your class and found error . just a minor issues on defining class . done now . can create object and field .
although i came across something .

__Update() call or UpdateMetadata() call in our case . requires an attribute : current name
how are we passing that ? __
eg : I have created a text field on Lead object by name: test..c , length :18 , label: test field
and now i want to change length to 16
Now as per document . I need to call update () metadata api . with current name :Lead.test..c
i tried to poke around with some hit and try but could not get to update field via updateMetadata()
any thoughts on That

[mohit-address]

Done updating field : hear is the code example :
Hope this may help a bit ....

public static void createField()
{
MetadataService.MetadataPort service = createService();
MetadataService.CustomField customField = new MetadataService.CustomField();
customField.fullName = 'lead.number__c';
customField.label = 'number';
customField.type_x = 'Number';
customField.scale= 0;
customField.precision= 11 ;

   MetadataService.AsyncResult[] results = service.create (new List<MetadataService.Metadata> { customField });

}

public static void updateField()
{
    MetadataService.MetadataPort service = createService(); 
    MetadataService.CustomField customField = new MetadataService.CustomField();
    customField.fullName = 'lead.number__c';
    customField.label='new_label';
    customField.type_x = 'Number'; 
    customField.precision= 10  ;
    customField.scale=0 ;

    MetadataService.UpdateMetadata ut = new MetadataService.UpdateMetadata();
    ut.currentName='lead.number__c';
    ut.metadata= customField;

    MetadataService.AsyncResult[] results = service.updateMetadata(new List<MetadataService.updateMetadata> {ut});

}

[afawcett]

That's great I will update the example code so others can see how update works. Glad you got it working!

[vinay-sv-sol]

i am also getting this exception "Initial expression is of incorrect type, expected: MetadataService.Metadata" while creating button How can i Resolve this