Quick Start

This document provides a guide for software developers using the REST API for Oracle CX Audience Marketing Cloud Service.

Oracle CX Audience REST APIs are JSON-aware for accepting or returning a payload. These REST APIs also comply with the HATEAOS principle such that a client interacts with a network application entirely through hypermedia provided dynamically by application servers. Therefore, a REST client needs no prior knowledge about how to interact with any particular application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia. As a result, the response payloads returned by most of the CX Audience REST interfaces contain additional information (specifically "links") to allow the client application to transition through application states. More information about HATEAOS is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS. Oracle CX Audience APIs support only UTF-8 character encoding. Special characters in request payloads must be UTF-8 encoded. If that is not the case, then an error response is returned.