📁 Inbound REST Integrations (Developer Documentation)

Question 1

What is ServiceNow’s REST API Explorer?

Answer 1

An application to construct and test API requests to a ServiceNow instance.

Question 2

What role is needed to access the REST API Explorer?

Answer 2

rest_api_explorer or admin

Question 3

What is something important to remember about the REST API explorer and your instance?

Answer 3

The REST API explorer interacts directly with the tables on your instance. Should typically be used on a non production instance and should be used with extreme caution if used on a production instance.

Question 4

What do Request Parameters consist of?

Answer 4

• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request headers

Question 5

What types of values can Query parameters include?

Answer 5

• Encoded Queries
• Field Name(s)
• true/false/all