REST API Versions and URL Paths

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) path identifies the REST resource that you want to call. A complete URL path consists of the server name and the resource path:

https://<server>/<resource-path>

The <server> is the REST API Server URL mentioned in the welcome email sent to your Oracle Cloud service administrator. For example:

https://servername.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com

The <resource-path> is the relative path or endpoint to the resource you're working with. For example, for accounts, the resource path is as follows:

/crmRestApi/resources/11.13.18.05/accounts

So, the combined request URL for the accounts resource becomes:

https://servername.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/crmRestApi/resources/11.13.18.05/accounts

Note that the resource path typically contains the context root for the REST API web module and the REST API version of a resource. For example, for the accounts resource, the context root for the REST API web module is crmRestApi and the version is 11.13.18.05.

We recommend using the latest API version, which is 11.13.18.05. If a resource path doesn't contain a version number, then it results in a 404 error. Therefore, make sure to include the API version 11.13.18.05 in the resource path.

Note:

URLs need to be compliant with the ASCII character set. If URLs contain non-ASCII characters, they're automatically converted into a format that's compatible with HTTP. For more information about HTML URL encoding, refer to the article HTML Uniform Resource Locators on www.w3schools.com.