openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Bloomberg BLPAPI Core Field Discovery Reference Data API version: '1.6' summary: OpenAPI representation of the Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) Core services. description: 'The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is a service-oriented, socket-based API used by the Desktop API, Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Bloomberg Platform products. It is **not natively HTTP/REST** โ€” clients use the BLPAPI SDK (C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, COM Excel) over a TCP session, typically against `localhost:8194` for the Desktop API or against the customer''s Server API host. This OpenAPI document is a best-effort REST-style projection of the BLPAPI service surface so that the request/response and subscription paradigms can be cataloged, browsed, and tooled alongside other API artifacts. It is derived from the **BLPAPI Core Developer Guide v1.6 (8/30/2016)** and the **BLPAPI Core User Guide**. Three paradigms exist in BLPAPI: Request/Response, Subscription, and Publishing. Only the Request/Response paths are modeled here as HTTP operations; subscription topics are documented via the `x-blpapi-subscription` extension on the relevant paths and in `tags`. ' contact: name: Bloomberg L.P. โ€” Enterprise / Open API url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ license: name: Bloomberg API SDK License url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ servers: - url: tcp://localhost:8194 description: Desktop API (default local Bloomberg Professional terminal session) - url: tcp://{sapiHost}:8194 description: Server API / B-PIPE host variables: sapiHost: default: sapi.example.com tags: - name: Reference Data description: Current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities (//blp/refdata ยท ReferenceDataRequest). paths: /refdata/ReferenceDataRequest: post: tags: - Reference Data summary: Request Reference Data for One or More Securities and Fields. description: 'Sends a `ReferenceDataRequest` to the `//blp/refdata` service to retrieve current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for up to thousands of securities at once. Limited to 400 fields per request; the API will internally split securities into groups of 10 and fields into groups of 128 against the session''s `MaxPendingRequests` (default 1024). Supports field overrides, EID return, formatted values, UTC timestamps, and forced delayed pricing. ' operationId: referenceDataRequest requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: ../json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json#/$defs/ReferenceDataRequest responses: '200': description: ReferenceDataResponse โ€” sequence of zero or more PARTIAL_RESPONSE messages followed by exactly one RESPONSE. content: application/json: schema: type: object additionalProperties: true 4XX: description: Error content: application/json: schema: $ref: ../json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json#/$defs/ErrorMessage x-microcks-operation: delay: 0 dispatcher: FALLBACK