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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › How to convert lead to account using REST API in salesforce?

    Tagged: Account, Lead Conversion, Rest API, Salesforce Development

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      How to convert lead to account using REST API in salesforce?

      Posted by Vikas Kumar on January 3, 2017 at 2:02 PM

      Hi All,

      How can we convert lead to account using Rest Api

      Thanks

      Shekhar Gadewar replied 9 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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    • Ajit

      Member
      January 4, 2017 at 5:43 AM

      Hi

      try this code below and let me know it worked or not :

      @RestResource(urlMapping='/Lead/*')
      global with sharing class RestLeadConvert {

      @HttpGet
      global static String doGet() {
      String ret = 'fail';
      RestRequest req = RestContext.request;
      RestResponse res = RestContext.response;
      String leadId = req.requestURI.substring(req.requestURI.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
      Database.LeadConvert lc = new Database.LeadConvert();
      lc.setLeadId(leadId);

      LeadStatus convertStatus = [SELECT Id, MasterLabel FROM LeadStatus WHERE IsConverted=true LIMIT 1];
      lc.setConvertedStatus(convertStatus.MasterLabel);
      Database.LeadConvertResult lcr ;
      try{
      lcr = Database.convertLead(lc);
      system.debug('*****lcr.isSuccess()'+lcr.isSuccess());
      ret = 'ok';
      }
      catch(exception ex){
      system.debug('***NOT CONVERTED**');
      }
      return ret;
      }
      }

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    • Shekhar Gadewar

      Member
      January 5, 2017 at 5:11 AM

      Hi Ajit,

       

      Thanks for sharing snippet.

      Can u tell me how to test that?

      How we can check that code in execution?

       

      Thanks

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