SOQL python 中的通配符

Question

I am trying to query from salesforce using python using simple_salesforce package. When I do wildcard, it is throwing me Malfunction error.

soql = """SELECT {} FROM Contact where LastModifiedDate like "%2020-06-16%" """.format(','.join(field_names)) 
results = sf.query_all(soql)

Error

line 1:1374 no viable alternative at character 

Answer 1

The date filter is wrong, This field is of type DateTime, not Date

You need to end up with something like

SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName, Email 
FROM Contact 
WHERE DAY_ONLY(LastModifiedDate) = 2020-06-15

Or

WHERE LastModifiedDate >= 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
    AND LastModifiedDate < 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z

There's a bunch of date conversion functions and special literals (not-really-constants) like TODAY, YESTERDAY, LAST_N_DAYS:123