Fetching parent-child relationship using API or XSD parsing?

Hi,
I would like to fetch all children of a parent object. I did not see any API to provide this information. I tried with GetMapping API, however it does not provide list of all child objects.
E.g. Fetching all child of "Account" object should return all child objects {Activity, Address, Asset, Attachment, Business Plan, Claim, Deal Registration, Financial Account, Financial Account Holder, Financial Plan, Lead, Message Response, Note, Objective, Opportunity, Policy, Policy Holder, Revenue, Service Request, Special Pricing Request}
Is it possible through API? If not, then XSD parsing seems to be the only way to retrieve children. Any guideline or rule on XSD parsing to get list of all children. XSD parsing doesn't look a good solution. Any other way to do so?
This information is crucial for us. Please provide input.
Thanks
Ravish

833189 wrote:
Hi,
I would like to fetch all children of a parent object. I did not see any API to provide this information. I tried with GetMapping API, however it does not provide list of all child objects.
E.g. Fetching all child of "Account" object should return all child objects {Activity, Address, Asset, Attachment, Business Plan, Claim, Deal Registration, Financial Account, Financial Account Holder, Financial Plan, Lead, Message Response, Note, Objective, Opportunity, Policy, Policy Holder, Revenue, Service Request, Special Pricing Request}
Is it possible through API? If not, then XSD parsing seems to be the only way to retrieve children. Any guideline or rule on XSD parsing to get list of all children. XSD parsing doesn't look a good solution. Any other way to do so?
This information is crucial for us. Please provide input.
Thanks
RavishHi Ravish,
Any success on this one? We are hurdling the same difficulty as of the moment. We are basically building a plugin that will remotely (and automatically) import a CRMOD object's data model. That goes to say also that we're relying on CRMOD's web services for our solution.
I've read from the Web Services on Demand Guide that GetMapping is suppose to "Return the display names and XML tags of the fields of a record type *or one of its child components*..."+. It seems that this translates to - if you want the list of fields for a child component, you have to run GetMapping on the child component. If this is the case, what other available web services calls can we make to get the relationship hierarchy of a CRMOD object? Any help would be greatly appreciated.:-)
Thank you,
John

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