DescribeMetadataResult

Contains information about the organization that is useful for developers working with declarative metadata.

The describeMetadata() call returns a DescribeMetadataResult object.

Each DescribeMetadataResult object has the following properties:

Name	Type	Description
metadataObjects	DescribeMetadataObject[]	One or more metadata components and their attributes.
organizationNamespace	string	The namespace of the organization. Specify only for Developer Edition organizations that can contain a managed package. The managed package has a namespace specified when it is created.
partialSaveAllowed	boolean	Indicates whether rollbackOnError is allowed (`true`) or not (`false`). This value is always : `false` in production organizations. the opposite of testRequired.
testRequired	boolean	Indicates whether tests are required (`true`) or not (`false`). This value is always the opposite of partialSaveAllowed.

DescribeMetadataObject

This object is returned as part of the DescribeMetadataResult. Each DescribeMetadataObject has the following properties:

Name	Type	Description
childXmlNames	string[]	List of child sub-components for this component.
directoryName	string	The name of the directory in the `.zip` file that contains this component.
inFolder	boolean	Indicates whether the component is in a folder (`true`) or not (`false`). For example, documents, email templates and reports are stored in folders.
metaFile	boolean	Indicates whether the component requires an accompanying metadata file. For example, documents, classes, and s-controls are components that require an additional metadata file.
suffix	string	The file suffix for this component.
xmlName	string	The name of the root element in the metadata file for this component. This name also appears in the `Packages` > `types` > `name` field in the manifest file package.xml.