Preface – This post is part of “Salesforce Integration with SOAP API” series.

In this blog post, I will go through an example where I will use Java program to perform delete operation using Salesforce’s SOAP API. The Syntax is given below –

DeleteResult[] = connection.delete(ID[] ids);


You should consider the below points before using the delete operation. 


Note: I have written a helper class ConnectionHelper.java which I am using to connect to Salesforce using Enterprise WSDL. To know more about that, please refer my previous post @ 

Below is the Java program – DeleteAccount.java where I am deleting an Account record with ID: 0019000000tvEQo.
import com.sforce.soap.enterprise.DeleteResult;
import com.sforce.soap.enterprise.EnterpriseConnection;
import com.sforce.soap.enterprise.Error;
import com.sforce.ws.ConnectionException;


public class DeleteAccount {
    private EnterpriseConnection enterpriseConnection;
    
    private DeleteAccount(){
        setEnterpriseConnection(ConnectionHelper.doConnect());
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DeleteAccount deleteAccount = new DeleteAccount();
        deleteAccount.doDeleteAccount(new String[]{"0019000000tvEQo"});
    }
    
    private void doDeleteAccount(String ids[]){
        try{
            DeleteResult[] deleteResults = getEnterpriseConnection().delete(ids);
            
            for(DeleteResult eachDeleteResult : deleteResults){
                if(eachDeleteResult.isSuccess()){
                    System.out.println("Deleted record id: " + eachDeleteResult.getId());
                }else{
                    for(Error eachError: eachDeleteResult.getErrors()){
                        System.out.println("Error occurred with message: " + eachError.getMessage());
                    }
                }
            }
        }catch(ConnectionException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }


    public EnterpriseConnection getEnterpriseConnection() {
        return enterpriseConnection;
    }


    public void setEnterpriseConnection(EnterpriseConnection enterpriseConnection) {
        this.enterpriseConnection = enterpriseConnection;
    }

}


It’s super easy!!!. Please provide your feedback. Thanks.