What is Schema in Salesforce?

What is Schema in Salesforce?

Schema is a namespace provided by salesforce which provides schema metadata information using different methods and classes.

• ChildRelationship Class
  This class contains methods to access the child relationship as well as the child sObject for a parent sObject.
• DataCategory Class
  This class represents the categories within a category group. It can provide visible subcategories in the data category.
• DataCategoryGroupSobjectTypePair Class
  This class specifies a category group and an associated object.
• DescribeColorResult Class
  This class contains color metadata information for a tab.
• Describe​DataCategoryGroupResult Class
  This class contains the list of the category groups associated with KnowledgeArticleVersion and Question.
• Describe​DataCategoryGroupStructureResult Class
  This class contains the category groups and categories associated with KnowledgeArticleVersion and Question.
• DescribeFieldResult Class
  This class contains methods for describing sObject fields.
• DescribeIconResult Class
  This class contains icon metadata information for a tab.
• DescribeSObjectResult Class
  This class contains methods for describing SObjects. None of the methods takes an argument.
• DescribeTabResult Class
  This class contains tab metadata information for a tab in a standard or custom app available in the Salesforce user interface.
• DescribeTabSetResult Class
  This class contains metadata information about a standard or custom app available in theSalesforce user interface.
• DisplayType Enum
  A Schema.DisplayType enum value is returned by the field describing the result’s getType method.
• FieldDescribeOptions Enum
  A Schema.FieldDescribeOptions enum value is a parameter in the SObjectType.getDescribe method.
• FieldSet Class
  This class contains methods for discovering and retrieving the details of fieldsets created on sObjects.
• FieldSetMember Class
  This class contains methods for accessing the metadata for fieldset member fields.
• PicklistEntry Class
  This class represents a picklist entry.
• RecordTypeInfo Class
  This class contains methods for accessing record type information for an sObject with associated record types.
• SOAPType Enum
  A Schema.SOAPType enum value is returned by the field describing the result getSoapType method.
• SObjectDescribeOptions Enum
  A Schema.SObjectDescribeOptions enum value is a parameter in the SObjectType.getDescribe method.
• SObjectField Class
  A Schema.sObjectField object is returned from the field describing the result using the getController and getSObjectField methods.
• SObjectType Class
  A Schema.sObjectType object is returned from the field describe result using the getReferenceTo method, or from the sObject describe result using the getSObjectType method.

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Originally published at https://blog.webnersolutions.com on December 10, 2021.