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RetrieveRequest

The RetrieveRequest parameter specified on a retrieve() call encapsulates options for determining which packages or files are retrieved.

The RetrieveRequest object consists of the following properties:

Name	Type	Description
apiVersion	double	Required. The API version for the retrieve request. The API version determines the fields retrieved for each metadata type. For example, an icon field was added to the `CustomTab` for API version 14.0. If you retrieve components for version 13.0 or earlier, the components don't include the icon field. In API version 31.0 and later, the API version that’s specified in package.xml is used for the `retrieve()` call and overrides the version in the apiVersion field. If the version isn't specified in package.xml, the version in this field is used.
packageNames	string[]	A list of package names to be retrieved. If you're retrieving only unpackaged components, don't specify a name here. You can retrieve packaged and unpackaged components in the same retrieve. This field is for reference only, don't use it to retrieve packaged metadata for development.
rootTypesWithDependencies	string[]	A list of component types to retrieve dependencies for. Currently, the only allowed value for this parameter is `Bot`. Use this parameter if any requested metadata components are of type `Bot`. Make up to 25 retrieve requests using this parameter per day. A single retrieve request using this parameter can request dependencies for up to 100 components. This field is available in API version 64.0 and later.
singlePackage	boolean	Specifies whether only a single package is being retrieved (`true`) or not (`false)`. If `false`, then more than one package is being retrieved.
specificFiles	string[]	A list of file names to be retrieved. If a value is specified for this property, `packageNames` must be set to `null` and `singlePackage` must be set to `true`.
unpackaged	Package	A list of components to retrieve that aren't in a package.