REST API Developer Guide

Introducing Lightning Platform REST API
Quick Start
Examples
Getting Information About My Organization
Working with Object Metadata
Working with Records
Delete Lightning Experience Event Series
Working with Searches and Queries
Insert or Update Blob Data
Working with Recently Viewed Information
Managing User Passwords
Working with Approval Processes and Process Rules
Using Event Monitoring
Using Composite Resources
Execute Dependent Requests in a Single API Call
Update an Account, Create a Contact, and Link Them with a Junction Object
Update a Record and Get Its Field Values in a Single Request
Upsert an Account and Create a Contact
Create Nested Records
Create Multiple Records
Using a Composite Graph
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Update a Record and Get Its Field Values in a Single Request

Use the Batch resource to execute multiple requests in a single API call.

The following example updates the name on an account and gets some of the account’s field values in a single request. The batch.json file contains the subrequest data.

Update a record and query its name and billing postal code in a single request
Request body batch.json file
Response body after successfully executing the subrequests