[CAMEL-17125] camel-salesforce: Improve support for polymorphic relationship queries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.13.0
• Component/s: camel-salesforce
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Jeremy Ross
• Reporter: Jeremy Ross
• Created: 25/Oct/21 15:47
• Updated: 25/Oct/21 16:38
• Resolved: 25/Oct/21 16:38

Description

Salesforce has the notion of polymorphic relationships in which a particular relationship can refer to records of a set of types. E.g., The Owner relationship can often refer to a User, Group or Calendar.

When querying for an object (record) that has a polymorphic relationship, Camel currently deserializes the related object to the superclass AbstractDescribedSObjectBase, throwing away all the subclass-specific data. However, the query result contains type information about the related object, therefore, using this type information, we should be able to deserialize to the specific subclass.