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  • Himanshu

    Member
    April 14, 2016 at 8:29 AM

    Hi Ajit,

    No,Actually you can't perform DML operations on static resources so it is not possible, if you try the below code then it will throw an error that DML operations are not allowed on Static resources.

    string str;
    StaticResource st = new StaticResource();
    st.body=blob.toPdf(str);
    st.name='abcd';
    insert st;

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  • Satyakam

    Member
    April 14, 2016 at 8:34 AM

    hii ajit,

    if you have uploaded any .zip file through static resource then you may use on vf page by following code:-

    <apex:page sidebar="false" showHeader="false" standardStyleSheets="false" >
    <apex:image url="{!URLFOR($Resource.CSSImage, 'images/bottom.gif')}" />
    </apex:page>

  • Abhinav

    Member
    April 14, 2016 at 8:35 AM

    But looks like we can insert the static resource through API. Because static resource is present in the metadata WSDL. So, i guess we can insert from API.

    Below are 2 static resources classes :-

    <xsd:complexType name="StaticResource">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tns:MetadataWithContent">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="cacheControl" type="tns:StaticResourceCacheControl"/>
    <xsd:element name="contentType" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:element name="description" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:extension>

     

    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    <xsd:simpleType name="StaticResourceCacheControl">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
    <xsd:enumeration value="Private"/>
    <xsd:enumeration value="Public"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
    </xsd:simpleType>

     

  • Abhinav

    Member
    April 14, 2016 at 8:37 AM

    It is also there in Tooling WSDL :-

    Please see the class below-

    <xsd:complexType name="StaticResource">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tns:sObject">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="Body" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:base64Binary" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="BodyLength" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="CacheControl" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="ContentType" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="CreatedBy" minOccurs="0" type="tns:User" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="CreatedById" minOccurs="0" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="CreatedDate" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:dateTime" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="Description" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="LastModifiedBy" minOccurs="0" type="tns:User" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="LastModifiedById" minOccurs="0" type="tns:ID" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="LastModifiedDate" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:dateTime" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="Name" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="NamespacePrefix" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:element name="SystemModstamp" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:dateTime" nillable="true"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>

  • Ajit

    Member
    April 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM

    Thanx Abhinav, but when i performed the insert operation in my code then it was throwing the error that DML not allowed.

  • Sourabh

    Member
    November 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM

    Hi Ajit,

    Metadata Api can help you out for creating static resource, Do someting like this:-

    MetadataService.MetadataPort service = createService();
    MetadataService.StaticResource staticResource = new MetadataService.StaticResource();
    staticResource.fullName = 'MyResource';
    staticResource.contentType = 'text';
    staticResource.cacheControl = 'public';
    staticResource.content = EncodingUtil.base64Encode(Blob.valueOf('Static stuff'));
    MetadataService.AsyncResult[] results = service.create(new List<MetadataService.Metadata> { staticResource });

    Thanks

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