Back in September the 23th 2021 I have opened a case in Salesforce Support about the issue on our project "The configuration of your org has changed, please reload the page. Missing dependent object: SObject: Settings__Feed".
I am building a dynamic user interface to traverse fields and relationships and I have faced a strange error on one particular case.
When I have Settings__c setting included in a package and also deleted custom setting with the same name in the org, when the following code is executed within the package
List<String> toReturn = new List<String>(); for (SObjectType t: FeedComment.FeedItemId.getDescribe().getReferenceTo()) { toReturn.add(t.getDescribe().getName()); } return toReturn; it fails with a strange error
The configuration of your org has changed, please reload the page. Missing dependent object: SObject: Settings__Feed which I cannot catch and log.
This is very strange, since this error doesn't happen when I execute the same code on subscriber org outside of the package.
By reverse engineering and black box testing, I have found out that this error is somehow related to FeedComment.FeedItemId field and the presence of duplicate unpackaged custom settings, but I still don't understand why this error happens and what does it mean?
Despite of the suggestion to reload the page, page reload never helps to resolve this.
Also when I try to ERASE the unpackaged custom settings Settings__c, I see another error.
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