Hi Brian and Paul,

Actually, the problem lies in the field you are expecting to get hits from.  The search call is an optimized search that is limited to certain highly indexed fields.  As it happens, web site is not one of them.  Check the API documentation for specifics (detailed in the search call).

To verify if your search is working correctly or not, log into the application and do a "sidebar search".  In the application on the left of the window is a search box.  What ever is found using that should be found also using the API search call.

Cheers

in the api documentation

"Indexed name fields are:. Account: Name, Site"

if this "Site" is not "Account Site" nor "Web Site", what is it?

do the fields listed in the API correspond to any fields in our SF account?

what am i missing?

i also tried creating an account called "test" it didn't find that either. is "Account Name" in SF Name in the API?

when i try the sidebar search, it is finding accounts with "test" in the "Account Site" field

but the api is not. is the api "turned on" for out sf account?

Message Edited by pninth on 07-02-2003 05:20 AM

Message Edited by pninth on 07-02-2003 05:25 AM

Message Edited by pninth on 07-02-2003 05:30 AM

Hi pninth,

The Site field referenced in the documentation corresponds to the Account Site in the UI and is not the web site. 

Your search should locate the account that you created and named test.  Please post the message that your are sending for analysis.

This isn't exactly working "out of the box" -- not that that was promised.  However, I'd gotten the impression that that's the way it was supposed to run.

The response is empty (and therefore uninformative).

The example throws a RuntimeException to the console, instead of catching it (testing for null, really) and indicating what that probably means.

Is the example supposed to run "out of the box"?  If not, what all do I need to do to make it run?

I, at first, tried to use Web Services Pack 1.2, but had a problem, saw a newsgroup-item about that, and changed to 1.1.

I'm running under Win98, using j2sdk1.4.2

>run.bat

You are connecting to http://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.SoapApi

Username: larry.lefever@verizon.net
Password: password
SearchValue: test
Scope all

com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.dom4j.BodyImpl@12f0999 [Element: uri: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ attributes: []/>]
SEARCH RESULTS
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at test.api.SForce.search(SForce.java:262)
        at test.api.SForce.main(SForce.java:400)

>run.bat

You are connecting to http://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.SoapApi

Username: larry.lefever@verizon.net
Password: password
SearchValue: DecisionSmith
Scope name

com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.dom4j.BodyImpl@1d7ad1c [Element: uri: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ attributes: []/>]
SEARCH RESULTS
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at test.api.SForce.search(SForce.java:262)
        at test.api.SForce.main(SForce.java:400)

>

    public static void main(String[] args){
        SForce client = null;
        String username = null;
        String password = null;
        String searchValue = null;
        String scope = null;
 
        System.out.println("\nYou are connecting to " + API_URL );
        System.out.println();
        System.out.print("Username: ");
        username = getString();
        System.out.print("Password: ");
        password = getString();
        System.out.print("SearchValue: ");
        searchValue = getString();
        System.out.print("Scope ");
        scope = getString();
       
        System.out.println();
        try {
            client = new SForce(API_VERSION, API_URL);
            if (client.login(username, password)) {
                if (client.describe(ACCOUNT)) {
                    //if (client.search("all", ACCOUNT, searchValue, 5)) {
                    if (client.search("all", scope, searchValue, 5)) {
                        // create select list and filters for query request
                        List select = new ArrayList();
                        select.add("id");
                        select.add("name");
                        select.add("industry");
                        List filter = new ArrayList();
                        String[] criteria = new String[2];
                        criteria[0] = TYPE_LOCAL;
                        criteria[1] = "Investor";
                        filter.add(criteria);
                        client.query(ACCOUNT, select, filter, 5);
                    }
                }
            }

see: https://na1.salesforce.com/00130000000aiGh for my customer-login-view

username: larry.lefever@verizon.net

password: password