Retrieving Metadata for an Oracle CRM On Demand Collection

The following details are for a request to retrieve metadata information about an accounts collection, including the account actions supported and links to parent and child resources:

• URL: https://<host>/OnDemand/user/Rest/latest/Accounts/describe?fields=collection.actions,links

• HTTP Method: GET

• Content-Type: None

• Request body: None

The following are the details for the response to a successful request:

• HTTP Code: 200

• Content-Type: application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json

• Response body:

{"Resources":
   {"Accounts":
     {
      "title":"MyAccount",
      "titlePlural":"MyAccounts",
      "CustomObjectTagName":"Accounts","collection":
     {
      "actions":[
        {
          "name":"get",
          "method":"GET",
          "responseType":["application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json"]},
        {
           "name":"create",
            "method":"POST",
            "responseType":["application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json"],
            "requestType":["application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json"]
         }
        ]
     },
     "links":
        {
          "describe":
           {
            "rel":"describe",
            "href":"/OnDemand/user/Rest/latest/Accounts/describe"},
           "canonicalDescribe":
           {
             "rel":"canonicalDescribe",
             "href":"/OnDemand/user/Rest/latest/Accounts/describe"}
        }
     }
   },
   "_contextInfo":{
     "limit":1,
     "offset":0,
     "lastpage":true}
}