How to create a SalesForce 'User' with SOAP Partner API? - soap

Question

I want to create a User in SalesForce programmatically by using SOAP API Partner WSDL. This is my code:
import com.sforce.soap.partner.Connector;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.PartnerConnection;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.QueryResult;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.SaveResult;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.sobject.SObject;
import com.sforce.ws.ConnectionException;
import com.sforce.ws.ConnectorConfig;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.sobject.*;
import com.sforce.soap.partner.*;
import com.sforce.soap.*;
import com.sforce.*;
public class PartnerAPICreateUser {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
ConnectorConfig config = new ConnectorConfig();
config.setUsername("waprau#waprau.com");
config.setPassword("dhskjhkjgfkjsdhkfjg");
PartnerConnection connection = null;
try {
SObject user = new SObject();
user.setType("user");
user.setField("Alias", "abcd");
user.setField("DefaultGroupNotificationFrequency", "P");
user.setField("DigestFrequency", "D");
user.setField("Email", "abcd#pqrs.com");
user.setField("EmailEncodingKey", "ISO-8859-1");
user.setField("LanguageLocaleKey", "English");
user.setField("LastName", "Rau");
user.setField("LocaleSidKey", "En");
user.setField("TimeZoneSidKey", "America/Los_Angeles");
user.setField("Username", "abcd#pqrs.com");
user.setField("UserPermissionsCallCenterAutoLogin", "true");
user.setField("UserPermissionsMarketingUser", "true");
user.setField("UserPermissionsOfflineUser", "true");
connection = Connector.newConnection(config);
SaveResult[] results = connection.create(new SObject[] { user });
System.out.println("Created user: " + results[0].getId());
QueryResult queryResults = connection
.query("SELECT Id, Name from User "
+ "ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC LIMIT 5");
if (queryResults.getSize() > 0) {
for (SObject s : queryResults.getRecords()) {
System.out.println("Id: " + s.getField("Id") + " - Name: "
+ s.getField("Name"));
}
}
} catch (ConnectionException ce) {
ce.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
However, when I execute this Java program it gives following output which shows 'Created user: null' :-(
Created user: null
Id: 005E0000001fb3vIAA - Name: Rau
Id: 005E0000001fVTTIA2 - Name: Chatter Expert
Id: 005E0000001fVU1IAM - Name: Wap Rau
Administrative Permissions when I go to MyName > Setup > Manage Users (in Administration Setup) > Profiles
Can you tell me whats wrong?
Thanks,
Wap Rau

Answer 1

The create call is returning an error, but you don't check for it, the returned SaveResult will tell you why it didn't create the user, you want something like
SaveResult[] results = connection.create(new SObject[] { user });
if (results[0].isSuccess())
System.out.println("Created user: " + results[0].getId());
else
System.out.println("Error: " + results[0].getErrors()[0].getStatusCode() +
":" + results[0].getErrors()[0].getMessage());