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I've been trying to create a lead, and figured starting with the sample code was a good idea. As such, I copied the lead creation and login code from the Samples object and strung them together. When I got the above error, I figured I was doing something wrong, so I modified the samples slightly to force creation of a sample user to be used when converting a lead. Here's the code.

Samples::getUnconvertedLead:
QueryResult qr = null;

//if ( qr.getSize() == 0 ) { // No leads where found that have not been

// converted, so....
// we will create a lead and then run the query again
System.out.println( "No unconverted leads found, will create one for you..." );
createLeadSample();
qr = binding.query( "Select Id, FirstName, LastName from Lead where ConvertedDate = Null" );
// }

I then use the samples, entry 19 (convert lead), and I get the following error :
6315 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Enter: HTTPSender::invoke
6388 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - XML sent:
6388 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - ---------------------------------------------------
6392 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - POST /services/Soap/c/6.0 HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/*
User-Agent: Axis/1.3
Host: na1-api.salesforce.com
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Length: 668

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6446 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
6449 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Server sfdc
6450 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Cache-Control private
6451 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Content-Type text/xml; charset=utf-8
6452 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Date Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:57:06 GMT
6454 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender -
no Content-Length
6455 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender -
XML received:
6455 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - -----------------------------------------------
6657 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender -
soapenv:Server
common.exception.ApiException: Must send a concrete entity type.


INVALID_TYPE
Must send a concrete entity type.
-1
-1



6658 [main] DEBUG org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender - Exit: HTTPDispatchHandler::invoke

Failed to create lead succesfully, error message was:
null

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This doesn't seem to be the desired behavior, so I figured I'd ask what's wrong with the samples that's causing this.

Are saved views and reports accessible through the api?

If not are there any plans for this in the future?

Thanks.