MSDynamics CRM 2011: Get Entity Type from Guid

When we are working with Dynamics CRM and writing the client application using Java to establish the connection and executing the Stub, there might be situation where we need obtain EntityType of GUID dynamically. Use the following class and instantiate to obtain the EntityType of GUID. 

import java.rmi.RemoteException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.microsoft.schemas.crm._2006.Query.AllColumns;

import com.microsoft.schemas.crm._2007.WebServices.RetrieveRequest;

import com.microsoft.schemas.crm._2007.WebServices.RetrieveResponse;

import com.microsoft.schemas.crm._2007.WebServices.TargetRetrieveDynamic;

import com.microsoft.wsdl.types.Guid;

public class GetEntityType {

           

            public String getGuidType(String id) {

//Add the Entity to the "type" ArrayList, I had some samples.

                        ArrayList<String> type= new ArrayList<String>();

                        type.add("account");

                        type.add("contact");

                        type.add("lead");

                        type.add("queue");

                        type.add("user");

                        type.add("facility/equipment");

                        String entityType=null;

                        TargetRetrieveDynamic target = new TargetRetrieveDynamic();

                        RetrieveResponse response = null;

                         

                        for(String t : type)

                        {

                        target.setEntityName(t.toString());

                        target.setEntityId(new Guid(id));  

                        AllColumns columnSet = new AllColumns();

                        RetrieveRequest ret = new RetrieveRequest();

                        ret.setTarget(target);

                        ret.setColumnSet(columnSet);

                        ret.setReturnDynamicEntities(true);

              try {

                   Object servicetype;

                   if (servicetype.equals("OnPremise")) {

                       //For OnPremise Account use Onpremise BindingStub

                   response = (RetrieveResponse) this.bindingStubOnPremise.execute(ret);

                     }

                     else {

                       //For Online Account use Online Account

                   response = (RetrieveResponse) this.bindingStubOnline.execute(ret);

                     }

            } catch (RemoteException e) {

                        continue;

                        }

            if(response!=null)

                        {

                                    entityType = t;

                                    break;

                        }

            }

                                               

            return entityType;

                                     

    }

           

}

...Prabakaran