REST API Developer Guide
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Get Metadata for an Object
Use the sObject Basic Information resource to get metadata
for an object.
To get a complete description of an object, including field names and their metadata, see Get a List of Objects.
Example for getting Account metadata
1curl https://MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v67.0/sobjects/Account/ -H "Authorization: Bearer token"Example request body for getting Account metadata
none required
Example response body for getting Account metadata
1{
2 "objectDescribe" :
3 {
4 "name" : "Account",
5 "updateable" : true,
6 "label" : "Account",
7 "keyPrefix" : "001",
8
9 ...
10
11 "replicateable" : true,
12 "retrieveable" : true,
13 "undeletable" : true,
14 "triggerable" : true
15 },
16 "recentItems" :
17 [
18 {
19 "attributes" :
20 {
21 "type" : "Account",
22 "url" : "/services/data/v67.0/sobjects/Account/001D000000INjVeIAL"
23 },
24 "Id" : "001D000000INjVeIAL",
25 "Name" : "asdasdasd"
26 },
27
28 ...
29
30 ]
31}