Salesforce Sales Cloud Event Schema API

Retrieve event schema definitions

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salesforce-sales-cloud-event-schema-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Salesforce Sales Cloud Salesforce Analytics REST Change Events Event Schema API
  description: Access Salesforce reports, dashboards, and analytics data programmatically. Enables embedding analytics into custom applications, automating report generation, running reports synchronously or asynchronously, and managing dashboard components and filters.
  version: 59.0.0
  termsOfService: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
  contact:
    name: Salesforce Developer Support
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/
  license:
    name: Salesforce Master Subscription Agreement
    url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
servers:
- url: https://{instance}.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/analytics
  description: Salesforce Production or Developer Edition
  variables:
    instance:
      default: yourInstance
      description: Your Salesforce instance identifier
security:
- oauth2: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Event Schema
  description: Retrieve event schema definitions
paths:
  /sobjects/{changeEventName}/eventSchema:
    get:
      operationId: getChangeEventSchema
      summary: Salesforce Sales Cloud Get change event Avro schema
      description: Retrieves the Apache Avro schema for the specified change event. The schema defines the event message structure including header fields and object-specific data fields.
      tags:
      - Event Schema
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/changeEventName'
      - name: payloadFormat
        in: query
        description: The payload format for the schema
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - EXPANDED
          - COMPACT
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully retrieved event schema
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  fields:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                  name:
                    type: string
                  namespace:
                    type: string
                  type:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /event/eventSchema/{schemaId}:
    get:
      operationId: getEventSchemaById
      summary: Salesforce Sales Cloud Get event schema by ID
      description: Retrieves an event schema using the schema ID provided in a change event message. Useful when dynamically processing change events and needing to resolve the schema at runtime.
      tags:
      - Event Schema
      parameters:
      - name: schemaId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The schema ID from the change event message
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: payloadFormat
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - EXPANDED
          - COMPACT
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully retrieved schema
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /sobjects/{eventApiName}/eventSchema:
    get:
      operationId: getPlatformEventSchema
      summary: Salesforce Sales Cloud Get platform event schema
      description: Retrieves the Apache Avro schema for the specified platform event. The schema describes the event's fields and their types in Avro format, used by the Pub/Sub API for binary event encoding.
      tags:
      - Event Schema
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/eventApiName'
      - name: payloadFormat
        in: query
        description: The payload format for the schema
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - EXPANDED
          - COMPACT
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successfully retrieved event schema
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  fields:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                  name:
                    type: string
                  namespace:
                    type: string
                  type:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  parameters:
    eventApiName:
      name: eventApiName
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The API name of the platform event (e.g., Order_Event__e)
      schema:
        type: string
    changeEventName:
      name: changeEventName
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The change event API name (e.g., AccountChangeEvent for Account, Contact__ChangeEvent for a custom object)
      schema:
        type: string
      examples:
        account:
          value: AccountChangeEvent
          summary: Account change events
        contact:
          value: ContactChangeEvent
          summary: Contact change events
        opportunity:
          value: OpportunityChangeEvent
          summary: Opportunity change events
        lead:
          value: LeadChangeEvent
          summary: Lead change events
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication failed
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
    ApiError:
      type: object
      properties:
        errorCode:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Salesforce OAuth 2.0 authentication
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token
          scopes:
            api: Access and manage your Salesforce data
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: OAuth 2.0 Access Token
externalDocs:
  description: Salesforce Reports and Dashboards REST API Developer Guide
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_analytics.meta/api_analytics/sforce_analytics_rest_api_intro.htm