Querying for All Contacts in an Account Using Uniformresponse to Return Multiple Records

You can query for a Siebel CRM component to return its responses in an array by sending a HTTPS GET request to the resource’s URI, and by setting the uniformresponse parameter to yes.

The following request queries for all Contact records in a given Account record from the Siebel CRM Server by using the uniformresponse parameter:

• URI: GET https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact?fields=First Name, Last Name&childlinks=Account,Position,Organization&uniformresponse=yes

• HTTP Method: GET

• Content Type: application/json

• Authorization: Basic

• Request body: None

Here are the response details for a successful request:

• HTTP Code: 200

• Content Type:

• Response body:

  {
      "items": [
          {
              "Id": "0CR-1MF5Z6",
              "First Name": "JOHN",
              "Last Name": "SMITH",
              "Link": [
                  {
                      "rel": "self",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact/0CR-1MF5Z6",
                      "name": "Contact"
                  },
                  {
                      "rel": "canonical",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact/0CR-1MF5Z6",
                      "name": "Contact"
                  },
                  {
                      "rel": "parent",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND",
                      "name": "Account"
                  },
                  {
                      "rel": "child",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact/0CR-1MF5Z6/Position",
                      "name": "Position"
                  },
                  {
                      "rel": "child",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact/0CR-1MF5Z6/Organization",
                      "name": "Organization"
                  },
                  {
                      "rel": "child",
                      "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact/0CR-1MF5Z6/Account",
                      "name": "Account"
                  }
              ]
          }
      ],
      "Link": [
          {
              "rel": "self",
              "href": "https://<host_name>:<port_number>/siebel/v1.0/data/Account/Account/88-26CND/Contact?&uniformresponse=y&childlinks=Account,Position,Organization&fields=First Name, Last Name",
              "name": "Contact"
          }
      ]
  }

  Note: The response in this example is in an array even though the array has single element. This is because the request contains the uniformresponse parameter.