What is the api field xxx__cSpecified?

[Kunlun]

Hi All,

I'm doing a project with SFDC api, to upload object values. See some objects have fields as xx__cSpecified, which is a bool type.

If there si  a field a__c, there should be a new field a__cSpecified

b__c, b__cSpecified

c__c, c__cSpecified.

if I upload a field value to SFDC, I ned to write

obj.a__c = "xx";

Should I set value for a__cSpecified? such as below code:

obj.a__cSpecified = true;

Thanks

Kunlun

[Imran Mohammed · Accepted solution]

You should set the xx_cSpecified field to true.

By default the xx_cSpecified fields are set to false.

If you want the value of field xx_c to be part of the soap message, then the xx_cSpecified field should be set to true, else it will not be part of SOAP message.

[Kunlun]

Thanks very much.

Can you tell me why there are these fields xx_cSpecified? Is there some way to remove or create them in SFDC?

[SimonF]

This are generated by .NET based on the types in the WSDL, its not part of the SOAP api, its part of the .NET Web services internal API.

[Kunlun]

Got it, is there a way to set all them to true? It is too much work to set them one by one.