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Rajendra Prasad 44Rajendra Prasad 44 

Sobject doubt

I am confused by fallowing Sobject statement 
'Account a = (Account)s' .  Could you explain it? 
Ajay K DubediAjay K Dubedi
Hi Rajendra,
'Account a = (Account)s' in this line 's' is a variable which might hold the Account information and you are typecasting it to Account type.

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Thanks,
Ajay Dubedi
Ravi Dutt SharmaRavi Dutt Sharma
Think of 's' as on object which is returned by another method. Now 's' can be anything. It can be an Account, a contact or any other sObject. As a caller, I know that the retunred 's' will always be an Account. But the method who is returning it, that method might be returning it as a generic sObject. To store this generic sObject in a variable of type Account, you need to first type cast it into Account. 

As a caller, if you know that 's' will be an Account, you will typecast it as below: 
Account acc = (Account)s;

As a caller, if you know that 's' will be a Contact, you will typecast it as below: 
Contact con = (Contact) con;