Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

Field description

In the field description, you will find all the information on the field requested:

• Which type is the field (lookup, number, text)?
• What kind of access does the user have to this field?
• What are the labels of the field? (if translated, the user will have the label in his/her language?)

To retrieve the information of the field, you call the getDescribe method of the field. The following is an example:

Map<String, Schema.SObjectType> mapObjects = Schema.getGlobalDescribe();Map<String, Schema.SObjectField> accountFields = mapObjects.get('account').getDescribe().fields.getMap();Schema.DescribeFieldResult yourField = accountFields.get('Name').getDescribe();System.debug(yourField);

The preceding code returns the following result: ...