How to access an object related lists in apex
I have an object ‘Household Served’ with a field called volunteer, and it also has an Event attached to it. The Event has a related list of Contacts. I need to write a trigger that validates the the volunteer on the Household served object is in the related list of the event.
Currently I have :
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trigger VolunteerValidate on Household_Served__c (before insert, before update) {
for(Household_Served__c house : Trigger.new){
Event__c e = new Event__c();
e.Id = house.Event__c;
if(house.Volunteer_Name__c != e.RelatedListGoesHere){
}
}
}
How can I access the Event’s related list of contacts?
Answer
The related list of contacts can be accessed via a sub-select. I’m assuming you are using the standard Contacts object.
You want something like this (this is bulkified, btw)
- Get a list of eventids
- Query events and associated contacts. Put in a map.
- Loop through Household_Server__c
- Get related Event__c from the map.
- Loop through the contacts on the Event__c
- If one matches, you are gold.
Here is the code:
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Set<id> eventIds = new Set<Id>();
for (Household_Served__c house : Trigger.new) {
eventIds.add(house.Event__c);
}
Map<Id, Event__c> eventMap = new Map<id,Event__c>([SELECT id, Name,
(SELECT Id, Name
FROM Contacts)
FROM Event__c
WHERE id in :eventIds]);
for(Household_Served__c house : Trigger.new){
Event__c e eventMap.get(house.Event__c);
if (e == null){
continue;
}
Boolean contactIsOnEvent = false;
for (Contact c : e.Contacts){
if(house.Volunteer_Name__c = c.Name){
contactIsOnEvent = true;
}
}
}
