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Ryan NeelRyan Neel 

Illegal assignment from Account to List<Account>

Hi folks, I had the following code working (Pic1), but I wanted to change the SOSL query to SOQL (Pic2) so I could limit the fields the user was searching through.  After changing the query to SOQL however, I'm getting the error "Illegal assignment from Account to List<Account> (29:13)".

SOSL Query: 
public with sharing class AccountSearchController {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static List<Account> searchAccounts( String searchTerm ) {
        List<Account> accounts = new List<Account>();
        if ( String.isNotBlank( searchTerm ) ) {
            List<List<sObject>> searchResults = [
                FIND :searchTerm
                RETURNING Account(
                    Id, Name, Phone, Website,
                    BillingStreet, BillingCity,
                    BillingState, BillingPostalCode
                   ORDER BY Name
                   LIMIT 10
              )
            ];
            accounts = searchResults[0];
        }
        return accounts;
    }
}
SOQL Query: 
public with sharing class AccountSearchController {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static List<Account> searchAccounts( String searchTerm ) {
        List<Account> accounts = new List<Account>();
        if ( String.isNotBlank( searchTerm ) ) {
            List<List<sObject>> searchResults = [
                SELECT Id
                      ,Name
                      ,Phone
                      ,Website
                      ,BillingStreet
                      ,BillingCity
                      ,BillingState
                      ,BillingPostalCode
                FROM Account
                WHERE BillingState = :searchTerm OR
                      BillingPostalCode = :searchTerm
                LIMIT 50  
            ];
            accounts = searchResults[0];
        }
        return accounts;
    }
}

 
AbhishekAbhishek (Salesforce Developers) 
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/169760/illegal-assignment-from-list-to-list

Try the suggestions as mentioned in the above developer discussion.

It might help you.
Maharajan CMaharajan C
Hi Ryan,

The below code is fine. No need of searchResults property.
  
public with sharing class AccountSearchController {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static List<Account> searchAccounts( String searchTerm ) {
        List<Account> accounts = new List<Account>();
        if ( String.isNotBlank( searchTerm ) ) {
            accounts = [SELECT Id,Name,Phone,Website,BillingStreet,BillingCity,BillingState,BillingPostalCode
                        FROM Account WHERE BillingState = :searchTerm OR BillingPostalCode = :searchTerm
                        LIMIT 50 ];
        }
        return accounts;
    }
}

Thanks,
Maharajan.C
ravi soniravi soni
hi Ryan,
try following code. 
public with sharing class AccountSearchController {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static List<Account> searchAccounts( String searchTerm ) {
        List<Account> accounts = new List<Account>();
        if ( String.isNotBlank( searchTerm ) ) {
            List<Account> searchResults = [SELECT Id,Name,Phone,Website,BillingStreet,BillingCity,BillingState,BillingPostalCode
                                           FROM Account WHERE BillingState = :searchTerm OR
                                           BillingPostalCode = :searchTerm LIMIT 50 ];
            accounts = searchResults;
        }
        return accounts;
    }
}

Note :  accounts = searchResults; your error is throwing from this line because you are assign single object into list<object> that is not good.
if you want to get first record of list then you should return single Account rather than list<Account>.

let me know if it helps you by marking it as best.
Thank You
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