Enhance SOSL to support AnyPublisher<QueryResult<T>

[perbrondum]

Is there any reason SOSL can not support AnyPublisher<QueryResult?

[mike4aday]

@perbrondum the Salesforce REST API search resource returns an array of records, and those records could be of different types depending on the domain of the SOSL search. In contrast, QueryResult for a SOQL search includes records of only 1 type, and includes metadata about the search results.

What is your requirement? What are you trying to achieve?

[perbrondum]

Finding an efficient fast way to find all object records (or nil) belonging to a company. FIND {tap2sales} In name FIELDS RETURNING Account(id, name), opportunity(id, name), contact(id, name, accountId) Basically if I could get the above (simplified) query to work, and separate the records by type, I'd be happy. How would you refer to the "contact ID" in the above sosl?. Using id.prefix(4) == 0061 to identify an Opportunity post query does not seem ideal but it may be the only way. I have it working in SOQL (multiple queries) but the power of SOSL when looking for a name across types is simpler and I'd like to use it. Per

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[mike4aday]

@perbrondum do all the objects you're looking for have a lookup relationship to Account (e.g. Opportunity and Contact)? If so, you could use a parent-to-child SOQL query.

I don't understand your second paragraph about ID prefixes and referring to Contact ID - would you clarify? (Also: only the first 3 characters of the record ID could be used to discern the object type -- see this help article.)

[perbrondum]

Using parent-child gets complicated with outer joins especially as we want to expose null records.

Below's an example of what I meant with contact Id.
let sosl = "FIND {%(searchStr)%} IN name FIELDS RETURNING Account(id, name),
opportunity(id, name), contact(id, name, accountId)
DB.salesforce.search(sosl: sosl).sink(receiveCompletion: { (completion) in
switch completion {
case .finished:
break
case let .failure(error) :
print(error)
}
}) { (searchResults: [SObject]) in
let name = searchResults.string(forField: "Name")!
...
How do I refer to a specific 'name' (contact or account) in the above line?

[mike4aday]

Hi @perbrondum the results will be returned in an array of Records. The object property of each Record will tell you its type (e.g. "Contact") and then you could call record.value(forField: "Name").

[perbrondum]

Beautiful. This is just awesome. Thanks.

let sosl = "FIND {%(textField.text!)%} IN Name FIELDS RETURNING Account(id, Name, BillingStreet, BillingCity, BillingPostalCode, BillingState, BillingCountry, lastActivityDate), Contact(id, name, MailingStreet, MailingCity, MailingPostalCode, MailingState, MailingCountry), Opportunity(id, name, expectedRevenue)"

        DB.salesforce.search(sosl: sosl)
            .sink(receiveCompletion: { (completion) in
                switch completion {
                case .finished:
                    print("Success SOSL query")
                case let .failure(error) :
                    print(error.localizedDescription)
                }
            }) { [self] (searchResults: [SObject]) in
                for row in searchResults {
                    switch row.object {
                    case objects.Account.rawValue:
                        existingAccounts.append(row)
                    case objects.Contact.rawValue:
                        existingContacts.append(row)
                    case objects.Opportunity.rawValue:
                        existingOpportunities.append(row)
                    default:
                        break
                    }
                }
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    accTable.reloadData()
                    ...
                }
            }.store(in: &self.subscriptions)