Are service URLs in apex rest service case sensitive?

Question

Rest API parameter are case-sensitive, Like User_Id and user_id are not interchangeable. But are services URLs also case-sensitive?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '16 at 10:25

As per salesforce documentation:

The URL mapping is case-sensitive. A URL mapping for my_url will only match a REST resource containing my_url and not My_Url.

Also if you are packaging your REST Service in a managed package your package namespace prefix is also case-sensitive.

The URL for a namespaced classes contains the namespace. For example, if your class is in namespace abc and the class is mapped to your_url, then the API URL is modified as follows: https://instance.salesforce.com/services/apexrest/abc/your_url/. In the case of a URL collision, the namespaced class is always used.

In above example if your namespace is abc you can't use ABC, Abc or any other variation of upper/lower case namespace.

AtulRajguru9 · Answer 2 · 2016-07-06T04:58:52.610

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I agree to Amit and its true about custom API.

But for standard API the URI are case insensitive. (except the id part)

For ex: send request to any of following uri and it still returns valid result

/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/Account/0019000001AWn2oAAD
/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/AccOunt/0019000001AWn2oAAD
/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/ACCOUNT/0019000001AWn2oAAD

But if you try with case insensitive ID it will not work. for ex.

/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/Account/0019000001AWn2oAAd
/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/AccOunt/0019000001aWn2oAAD
/services/data/v35.0/sobjects/ACCOUNT/0019000001AWN2o

PS: for this simple test i used workbench but you can use any client and it should work

edited Jul 06 '16 at 04:58

answered Jul 05 '16 at 11:17

AtulRajguru9

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Sort of. If you mess up the case of an ID, salesforce tends to complain about it. – sfdcfox Jul 05 '16 at 16:35
not for ids with length 18 – AtulRajguru9 Jul 05 '16 at 17:24
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Yes, even with IDs length 18. You'll get a MALFORMED_ID error if you change any single character's case in the ID. Try it out for yourself. – sfdcfox Jul 05 '16 at 17:27
ok, got you point. Updated my answer. – AtulRajguru9 Jul 06 '16 at 04:59
@sfdcfox, thank you for the comment, it was helpful. Also this leads me to new question http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/130158/what-is-use-of-18-digit-of-id . Please take a look at it when you get time. Thanks. – AtulRajguru9 Jul 06 '16 at 06:26

Are service URLs in apex rest service case sensitive?

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