Step One: Create a Job

URI

/services/async/APIversion/job

Example XML request body

1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<jobInfo
3   xmlns="http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload">
4 <operation>insert</operation>
5 <object>Account</object>
6 <contentType>CSV</contentType>
7</jobInfo>

Example XML response body

1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<jobInfo
3    xmlns="http://www.force.com/2009/06/asyncapi/dataload">
4  <id>750D00000004SkLIAU</id>
5  <operation>insert</operation>
6  <object>Account</object>
7  <createdById>005D0000001b0fFIAQ</createdById>
8  <createdDate>2015-12-15T21:41:45.000Z</createdDate>
9  <systemModstamp>2015-12-15T21:41:45.000Z</systemModstamp>
10  <state>Open</state>
11  <concurrencyMode>Parallel</concurrencyMode>
12  <contentType>CSV</contentType>
13  <numberBatchesQueued>0</numberBatchesQueued>
14  <numberBatchesInProgress>0</numberBatchesInProgress>
15  <numberBatchesCompleted>0</numberBatchesCompleted>
16  <numberBatchesFailed>0</numberBatchesFailed>
17  <numberBatchesTotal>0</numberBatchesTotal>
18  <numberRecordsProcessed>0</numberRecordsProcessed>
19  <numberRetries>0</numberRetries>
20  <apiVersion>36.0</apiVersion>
21  <numberRecordsFailed>0</numberRecordsFailed>
22  <totalProcessingTime>0</totalProcessingTime>
23  <apiActiveProcessingTime>0</apiActiveProcessingTime>
24  <apexProcessingTime>0</apexProcessingTime>
25</jobInfo>

Example JSON request body

1{
2  "operation" : "insert",
3  "object" : "Account",
4  "contentType" : "JSON"
5}

Example JSON response body

1{
2   "apexProcessingTime" : 0,
3   "apiActiveProcessingTime" : 0,
4   "apiVersion" : 36.0,
5   "concurrencyMode" : "Parallel",
6   "contentType" : "JSON",
7   "createdById" : "005D0000001b0fFIAQ",
8   "createdDate" : "2015-12-15T20:45:25.000+0000",
9   "id" : "750D00000004SkGIAU",
10   "numberBatchesCompleted" : 0,
11   "numberBatchesFailed" : 0,
12   "numberBatchesInProgress" : 0,
13   "numberBatchesQueued" : 0,
14   "numberBatchesTotal" : 0,
15   "numberRecordsFailed" : 0,
16   "numberRecordsProcessed" : 0,
17   "numberRetries" : 0,
18   "object" : "Account",
19   "operation" : "insert",
20   "state" : "Open",
21   "systemModstamp" : "2015-12-15T20:45:25.000+0000",
22   "totalProcessingTime" : 0
23}

In these samples, the contentType field indicates that the batches associated with the job are in CSV format. For alternative options, such as XML or JSON, see JobInfo.