Is there a way to know programmatically which objects have role access enabled, i.e "Grant Access Using Hierarchies" enabled in Organization-Wide defaults? I didn't find this information when querying the METADATA API or the SOAP API.
I can only use java code for this project, thus Apex solutions are not possible.
Thank you.
Unfortunately it seems that Org-Wide Defaults are on the list of components that are unable to be retrieved via the Metadata API. Here's a full list of these for your reference: Unsupported Metadata Types
Looks like this option is not available neither by Apex, nor by Tooling API, SOAP API or Metadata API. So the only option to achieve this is screen-scraping.
public static List<String> getObjectsHavingGrantAccessUsingHierarchies() { String u = URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm() + '/p/own/OrgSharingDetail?setupid=SecuritySharing'; PageReference p = new PageReference(u); String x = p.getContent().toString().substringBetween('class="pbBody">','</div'); List<string> xx = x.split('</tr>'); Map<String, Boolean> entityLabelToCheckbox = new Map<String, Boolean>(); for (String xxx: xx) { String a = xxx.substringBetween('class=" dataCell ">', '</th>'); String b = xxx.substringBetween(' booleanColumn">', '</td>'); if (!String.isBlank(b)) { Boolean c = b.contains('/img/checkbox_checked.gif'); entityLabelToCheckbox.put(a, c); } } List<String> with = new List<String>(); List<String> without = new List<String>(); for (String label: entityLabelToCheckbox.keySet() ) { if (entityLabelToCheckbox.get(label)) { with.add(label); } else { without.add(label); } } System.debug(with); System.debug(without); return with; } However, this might not pass Security Review, since this is fragile as any screen-scraping methods.
Also I posted idea to get a better option https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=0873A0000015AhkQAE
