Describe Global

Lists the available objects and their metadata for your organization’s data. In addition, it provides the organization encoding, as well as the maximum batch size permitted in queries. For more information on encoding, see Internationalization and Character Sets.

You can use the If-Modified-Since header with this resource, with the date format EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z. When using this header, if no available object’s metadata has changed since the provided date, a 304 Not Modified status code is returned with no response body.

URI

/vXX.X/sobjects/

Formats

JSON, XML

HTTP Method

GET

Authentication

Authorization: Bearer token

Parameters

none required

Example

See Get a List of Objects.

Error responses

See Status Codes and Error Responses.