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Workday Extend Schema Introspection API

Operations for discovering available business objects, their fields, relationships, and query capabilities through the Graph API.

Workday Extend Schema Introspection API is one of 16 APIs that Workday Extend publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Schema Introspection. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and an API reference.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{baseUrl}/api/customObjects/v1/{tenant}.

3 operations 3 paths 5 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://api.workday.com/extend/v1
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Workday Extend Schema Introspection API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 2 scopes. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Schema Introspection 3

Operations for discovering available business objects, their fields, relationships, and query capabilities through the Graph API.

GET
/schema
Workday Extend Retrieve the graph schema
getSchema → 200401403
GET
/schema/types
Workday Extend List available business object types
listSchemaTypes 3 params → 200401403
GET
/schema/types/{typeName}
Workday Extend Retrieve a specific business object type schema
getSchemaType 1 param → 200401403404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SchemaType (5 properties), SchemaField (5 properties), SchemaRelationship (4 properties), ErrorResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SchemaField
object
5 properties
SchemaType
object
5 properties
SchemaRelationship
object
4 properties
GraphSchema
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

workday-extend-schema-introspection-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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