Oracle Siebel Contacts API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Oracle Siebel REST Contacts API
  description: RESTful API for accessing Siebel CRM business objects, business services, and repository objects. The Siebel REST API supports standard CRUD operations using HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) against business object data resources, business service invocation, and workspace-based repository management. Responses are available in JSON or XML format, and the API provides built-in metadata discovery through describe endpoints that return OpenAPI-compatible specifications.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Oracle Support
    url: https://support.oracle.com
  termsOfService: https://www.oracle.com/legal/terms.html
servers:
- url: https://{siebel-server}/siebel/v1.0
  description: Siebel Application Interface Server
  variables:
    siebel-server:
      default: localhost
      description: Hostname and port of the Siebel Application Interface running the siebel-rest.war deployment on Apache Tomcat
security:
- basicAuth: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Contacts
  description: Operations on Contact business objects representing individual people associated with accounts and organizations
paths:
  /data/Account/Account/{AccountId}/Contact:
    get:
      operationId: listAccountContacts
      summary: List contacts for an account
      description: Retrieve the Contact child business component records associated with a specific Account. Returns contact details including name, email, phone, and job title for all contacts linked to the parent account.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/searchspec'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/uniformresponse'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PageSize'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/StartRowNum'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contacts retrieved successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact'
                  Link:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinkObject'
        '204':
          description: No contacts found for this account
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
        '404':
          description: Parent account not found
    put:
      operationId: upsertAccountContact
      summary: Add or update a contact for an account
      description: Insert or update a Contact child record under a specific Account. Supports inserting single contacts or multiple contacts in a batch using an array payload.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactInput'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contact upserted successfully
        '201':
          description: Contact created successfully
        '400':
          description: Invalid request body
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
  /data/Contact/Contact:
    get:
      operationId: listContacts
      summary: List contacts
      description: Retrieve a collection of Contact business component records from the Contact business object. Returns contact details including name, email, phone number, job title, and account associations.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/searchspec'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ChildLinks'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/uniformresponse'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ViewMode'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PageSize'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/StartRowNum'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contacts retrieved successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact'
                  Link:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinkObject'
        '204':
          description: No contacts found
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
    post:
      operationId: createContact
      summary: Create a contact
      description: Insert a new Contact business component record into the Contact business object. The request body must contain the required contact fields including First Name, Last Name, and Primary Organization Id.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactInput'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Contact created successfully
        '400':
          description: Invalid request body or missing required fields
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
  /data/Contact/Contact/{ContactId}:
    get:
      operationId: getContact
      summary: Get a contact by ID
      description: Retrieve a single Contact business component record by its unique row identifier.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContactId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ChildLinks'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contact retrieved successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact'
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
        '404':
          description: Contact not found
    put:
      operationId: upsertContact
      summary: Upsert a contact
      description: Insert or update a Contact business component record by its unique row identifier.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContactId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactInput'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contact upserted successfully
        '400':
          description: Invalid request body
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
    delete:
      operationId: deleteContact
      summary: Delete a contact
      description: Delete a Contact business component record by its unique row identifier.
      tags:
      - Contacts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContactId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Contact deleted successfully
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials missing or invalid
        '404':
          description: Contact not found
components:
  parameters:
    PageSize:
      name: PageSize
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Maximum number of records to return in the response. Controls pagination by limiting the result set size.
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        examples:
        - 20
    ViewMode:
      name: ViewMode
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Access control mode that determines which records are visible. Personal returns records owned by the user, Sales Rep uses position-based access, and Organization uses organization-level visibility rules.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - Personal
        - Sales Rep
        - Organization
    ChildLinks:
      name: ChildLinks
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Comma-separated list of child business component names to include as link references in the response. Use 'None' to suppress all child links.
      schema:
        type: string
        examples:
        - Contact,Opportunity
        - None
    AccountId:
      name: AccountId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Unique row identifier for the Account record
      schema:
        type: string
        examples:
        - 88-26CND
    ContactId:
      name: ContactId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Unique row identifier for the Contact record
      schema:
        type: string
        examples:
        - 0CR-1MF5Z6
    uniformresponse:
      name: uniformresponse
      in: query
      required: false
      description: When set to 'yes' or 'y', forces the response to always use the JSON array format with an items wrapper, regardless of whether the result contains a single record or multiple records.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - 'yes'
        - 'no'
        - y
        - n
    fields:
      name: fields
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Comma-separated list of field names to include in the response. When specified, only the listed fields are returned instead of all available fields.
      schema:
        type: string
        examples:
        - Name,Location,Account Status
    StartRowNum:
      name: StartRowNum
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Zero-based index of the first record to return. Used in combination with PageSize for pagination through large result sets.
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0
        default: 0
    searchspec:
      name: searchspec
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Siebel search specification expression for filtering records. Uses Siebel query language syntax with field names in square brackets and standard comparison operators.
      schema:
        type: string
        examples:
        - '[Name] LIKE ''B*'' AND [Status] = ''Active'''
  schemas:
    ContactInput:
      type: object
      description: Input payload for creating or updating a Contact record
      required:
      - First Name
      - Last Name
      properties:
        First Name:
          type: string
          description: Contact first name
        Last Name:
          type: string
          description: Contact last name
        Job Title:
          type: string
          description: Job title or role
        Email Address:
          type: string
          description: Email address
        'Work Phone #':
          type: string
          description: Work phone number
        'Cellular Phone #':
          type: string
          description: Mobile phone number
        Employee Number:
          type: string
          description: Employee number
        Employer Name:
          type: string
          description: Employer organization name
        Primary Organization Id:
          type: string
          description: Row identifier of the primary organization
    LinkObject:
      type: object
      description: HATEOAS link object providing navigation references to related Siebel REST API resources
      properties:
        rel:
          type: string
          description: Relationship type (self, child, parent)
          enum:
          - self
          - child
          - parent
        href:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Full URL to the related resource
        name:
          type: string
          description: Name of the related business component
    Contact:
      type: object
      description: A Siebel CRM Contact business component record representing an individual person associated with an account
      properties:
        Id:
          type: string
          description: Unique row identifier for the contact record
        First Name:
          type: string
          description: Contact first name
        Last Name:
          type: string
          description: Contact last name
        Job Title:
          type: string
          description: Job title or role
        Email Address:
          type: string
          description: Email address
        'Work Phone #':
          type: string
          description: Work phone number
        'Cellular Phone #':
          type: string
          description: Mobile phone number
        Account:
          type: string
          description: Associated account name
        Account Id:
          type: string
          description: Row identifier of the associated account
        Employee Number:
          type: string
          description: Employee number if applicable
        Employer Name:
          type: string
          description: Employer organization name
        Primary Organization Id:
          type: string
          description: Row identifier of the primary organization
        Status:
          type: string
          description: Contact status
        Link:
          type: array
          description: HATEOAS links to related resources
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinkObject'
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic Authentication using Siebel CRM user credentials encoded as Base64 in the Authorization header
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: OAuth 2.0 authentication for token-based access to the Siebel REST API
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://{siebel-server}/siebel/v1.0/auth/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://{siebel-server}/siebel/v1.0/auth/token
          scopes: {}
externalDocs:
  description: Oracle Siebel REST API Documentation
  url: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E95904_01/books/RestAPI/overview-of-using-the-siebel-rest-api.html