unexpected token: '<redacted>'

Salesforce Platform REST API · GET /services/data/{version}/query · HTTP 400 MALFORMED_QUERY

Status: ✅ verified:server:sandbox · first seen 2026-10-24 · last confirmed 2026-10-27 · 45 confirmations from 2 vantages

A SOQL query with a syntax error returns HTTP 400 MALFORMED_QUERY naming the unexpected token ("unexpected token: 'SELEC'").

What to do

1. No client-side fix known (by design).

Dimensions

env: sandbox · plan: any · region: any · account_state: developer_edition

Evidence

Probe af:salesforce:probe:soql-malformed-query (declarative, source)

Observations: none from reporters yet.

Machine access

curl -s https://apifacts.dev/v0/check \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"target":{"method":"GET","url":"https://login.salesforce.com/services/data/{version}/query"},"error":{"status":400,"body_excerpt":"unexpected token: '\''<redacted>'\''"}}'

YAML: facts/salesforce/soql-malformed-query-400.yaml

Data: CC BY 4.0 · apifacts registry · This page is generated; edit the YAML, not the page.