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hiratake55
Feature Request
Any chance that you might add some functionality to work with the metadata API?
Is the creating/deleting objects and fields even possible? It would be great to be able to programmatically, with R, build out orgs quickly to demonstrate proofs of concept.
@Btibert3 Yes, you should be able to create/delete objects and fields since the Metadata API supports CRUD operations. I'll be taking a look at the Metadata API soon.
Awesome. I am currently trying to work through the code, but admittedly I am still trying to figure out how it might work through R. That said, if you do get something hacked together, I am pretty sure that I could run with an example and would absolutely love to help out on that side of the equation.
Below is a link to a gist that demos reading the metadata from the Account object, then switching the name on it to "Custom_Account__c", and re-submitting that same metadata back into Salesforce to create a custom copy of the Account object. The code is still really rough and we'll need to write some convenience wrappers to abstract a lot of the action, but figured it'd help get the ball rolling.
https://gist.github.com/ReportMort/f84f6d853ea3c886ebe4
That is fantastic. Let me try to wrap my head around it and see what I can do. Thanks for kicking this off!