Difference between Enterprise and Partner wsdl in Salesforce

Difference between Enterprise and Partner wsdl in Salesforce

Enterprise WSDL

  • Strongly typed, the object and its attributes are fixed.
  • Contains the metadata about all standard and custom fields and objects.
  • Can only be used against your Salesforce instance.

Partner WSDL

  • Is loosely typed, the object and its attributes can be variable.
  • Does not contain metadata about objects and fields. Takes an array of key-value pairs.
  • Can be used against many Salesforce.com organizations.
  • Partner WSDL is more flexibile than enterprise WSDL. Methods use sObject superclass rather than specific classes. Application handles fields as arrays of name-value pairs.

Enterprise WSDL Example:

Position__c p = new Position__c();
p.setName("Test");

Partner WSDL Example:

sObject p = new sObject();
p.setType("Position__c");
p.setField("Name", "Test");

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