Unit testing code which has logic around the CreatedDate in Salesforce

Hi Manpreet,

You can create sObjects in memory with arbitrary CreatedDate values by using JSON.deserialize. This doesn’t enforce the normal read-only field attributes that prevent you from setting a createdDate value. However you can’t commit arbitrary CreatedDate values to the database (or else it would be a serious security issue).

An example of doing so :

String caseJSON = ‘{“attributes”:{“type”:”Case”,”url”:”/services/data/v25.0/sobjects/Case/500E0000002nH2fIAE”},

“Id”:”500E0000002nH2fIAE”,

“CreatedDate”:”2012-10-04T17:54:26.000+0000″}’;
Case c = (Case) JSON.deserialize(caseJSON, Case.class );
System.debug(c.createdDate);