How to create a SalesForce 'User' with SOAP Partner API?

Question

I want to create a User in SalesForce programmatically by using SOAP API Partner WSDL. This is my code:

import com.sforce.soap.partner.Connector;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.PartnerConnection;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.QueryResult;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.SaveResult;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.sobject.SObject;

import com.sforce.ws.ConnectionException;

import com.sforce.ws.ConnectorConfig;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.sobject.*;

import com.sforce.soap.partner.*;

import com.sforce.soap.*;

import com.sforce.*;

public class PartnerAPICreateUser {

    /**

     * @param args

     */

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ConnectorConfig config = new ConnectorConfig();

        config.setUsername("[email protected]");

        config.setPassword("dhskjhkjgfkjsdhkfjg");

        PartnerConnection connection = null;

        try {

            SObject user = new SObject();

            user.setType("user");

            user.setField("Alias", "abcd");

            user.setField("DefaultGroupNotificationFrequency", "P");

            user.setField("DigestFrequency", "D");

            user.setField("Email", "[email protected]");

            user.setField("EmailEncodingKey", "ISO-8859-1");

            user.setField("LanguageLocaleKey", "English");

            user.setField("LastName", "Rau");

            user.setField("LocaleSidKey", "En");

            user.setField("TimeZoneSidKey", "America/Los_Angeles");

            user.setField("Username", "[email protected]");

            user.setField("UserPermissionsCallCenterAutoLogin", "true");

            user.setField("UserPermissionsMarketingUser", "true");

            user.setField("UserPermissionsOfflineUser", "true");

            connection = Connector.newConnection(config);

            SaveResult[] results = connection.create(new SObject[] { user });

            System.out.println("Created user: " + results[0].getId());

            QueryResult queryResults = connection

                    .query("SELECT Id, Name from User "

                            + "ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC LIMIT 5");

            if (queryResults.getSize() > 0) {

                for (SObject s : queryResults.getRecords()) {

                    System.out.println("Id: " + s.getField("Id") + " - Name: "

                            + s.getField("Name"));

                }

            }

        } catch (ConnectionException ce) {

            ce.printStackTrace();

        }

    }

}

However, when I execute this Java program it gives following output which shows 'Created user: null' :-(

Created user: null

Id: 005E0000001fb3vIAA - Name: Rau

Id: 005E0000001fVTTIA2 - Name: Chatter Expert

Id: 005E0000001fVU1IAM - Name: Wap Rau

Administrative Permissions when I go to MyName > Setup > Manage Users (in Administration Setup) > Profiles

Can you tell me whats wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

The create call returns an error, but don't check for it, the returned SaveResult will tell you why it didn't create the user, you want something like

SaveResult[] results = connection.create(new SObject[] { user });

if (results[0].isSuccess())

    System.out.println("Created user: " + results[0].getId());

else

    System.out.println("Error: " + results[0].getErrors()[0].getStatusCode() + 

                       ":" + results[0].getErrors()[0].getMessage());

 

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