How to retrieve list views of any salesforce object using API?

Question

I want to retrieve all list views of any salesforce object through API. How to do that?

Solution 1

This is an old question, but, using the REST API and Salesforce's query language, you could use the endpoint:

{your instance url}/services/data/v32.0/query?q=SELECT Id,Name FROM {object type}

OR

Use the endpoint:

{your instance url}/services/data/v32.0/sobjects/{object type}/listviews

Some examples:

To get all listviews: https://na16.salesforce.com/services/data/v32.0/query?q=SELECT Id,Name FROM ListView

To get all listviews with object type of account: https://na16.salesforce.com/services/data/v32.0/sobjects/Account/listviews

In PHP:

$url = "{your instance url}/services/data/v32.0/sobjects/Account/listviews";
$headers = array('Authorization: OAuth ' . {your access token});
$ch = curl_init ();  
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );  
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );  
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE );  
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);  

$requestBody = curl_exec ($ch);
$result = json_decode($requestBody, true);

Of course you'll need to login first through OAUTH to get an access token and instance URL.

Solution 2

If it's SOAP api that you are looking for, it's called describeSObject - for specific object, or 'describeGlobal' - for all your org's data.

See the reference link below for SOAP message: http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Sample_SOAP_Messages_(10.0_API)