Has SObject Name

Add the force:hasSObjectName interface to an Aura component to enable the component to be assigned the API name of current record’s sObject type. The sObject name is useful if the component can be used with records of different sObject types, and needs to adapt to the specific type of the current record. This interface has no effect except when used within Lightning Experience, the Salesforce mobile app, and sites based on Experience Builder templates.

This interface is a marker interface. A marker interface is a signal to the component’s container to add the interface’s behavior to the component. You don’t need to implement any specific methods or attributes in your component, you simply add the interface name to the component’s implements attribute.

This interface adds an attribute named sObjectName to your component. This attribute is of type String, and its value is the API name of an object, such as Account or myNamespace__myObject__c. For example:

Important: The sObjectName attribute is set only when you place or invoke the component in an explicit record context. For example, when you place the component directly on a record page layout, or invoke it as an object-specific action from a record page or object home. In all other cases, such as when you invoke the component as a global action, or create the component programmatically inside another component, sObjectName isn’t set, and your component shouldn’t depend on it. These unsupported contexts include a few contexts that might seem like they should have access to the current record. Examples of these other contexts include the following:

• Invoking the component from a global action (even when you’re on a record page)
• Invoking the component from header or footer navigation in an Experience Builder site (even if the page shows a record)

force:hasRecordId and force:hasSObjectName are unsupported in these contexts. While the marker interfaces still add the relevant attribute to the component, accessing either attribute generally returns null or undefined.

This example shows the markup required to add the force:hasSObjectName interface to an Aura component.

The component’s controller can access the ID of the current record from the recordId attribute, using component.get("v.sObjectName"). The recordId attribute is automatically added to the component by the force:hasSObjectName interface.

For more information, see the Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide.