[SalesForce] Custom objects not accessible via REST API

The standard REST API only provides doing object describes on single objects at a time. http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/Content/dome_sobject_basic_info.htm

You could try creating a custom REST API using Apex REST and returning the map of objects:

Map<String, Schema.SObjectType> gd = Schema.getGlobalDescribe(); 

You would have to cast the Schema.SObjectType object to a custom object first before returning it though.

Something like the following...

@RestResource(urlMapping='/RT/*')
global class RESTTest 
{
    @HttpPost
    global static Map<String, TestObj> getGlobalDescribe()
    {
        //TODO: iterate through Schema.getGlobalDescribe() method results and
        //cast results to custom object below

        return null;
    }

    global class TestObj
    {
        global String name;
        //TODO: add more properties as needed
    }
}

This code hasn't been tested by the way, is just meant to help point you in the right direction.

Check out more information on Dynamic Apex here: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_dynamic_describe_objects_understanding.htm#apex_describe_object_access_all

Let me know if you have any questions.

I think that rest call works, at least it did for me using Postman. It's kind of a pain to format things though. When I first tried this, I kept getting an invalid date error no matter how nicely I thought the formatting was that I was passing.

This date format didn't work at all in postman.

2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

I had to use the encoded version:

2014-06-19T00%3A00%3A00%2B00%3A00

I don't know if this is a Postman thing, or that the service is finicky. But, I got it to work.

Here it is in action:

Here is a nice link to some sfdc docs showing this working as well: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/index_Left.htm#CSHID=intro_rest_resources.htm|StartTopic=Content%2Fintro_rest_resources.htm|SkinName=webhelp

Best of luck!

-Wes