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 or If-Unmodified-Since header with this resource. When using the If-Modified-Since 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

/services/data/vXX.X/sobjects/

Formats

JSON, XML

HTTP Method

GET

Authentication

Authorization: Bearer token

Parameters

Parameter	Description
If-Modified-Since	An optional header specifying a date and time. The request returns records that have been modified after that date and time. The format is EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z. For example: If-Modified-Since: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:34:54 MST.
If-Unmodified-Since	An optional header specifying a date and time. The request returns records that have not been modified after that date and time. The format is EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z. For example: If-Unmodified-Since: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:34:54 MST.

Example

See Get a List of Objects.

Error responses

See Status Codes and Error Responses.