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What is an OData service?
OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS standard that defines the best practice for building and consuming RESTful APIs. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs, enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools.
What is difference between OData and REST Web services?
The difference is that OData is a specific protocol; REST is architecture style and design pattern. REST is a generic design technique used to describe how a web service can be accessed. Using REST you can make http requests to get data.
What is the use of OData?
OData helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc.
What is OData in Web API?
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a data access protocol for the web. OData provides a uniform way to query and manipulate data sets through CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete). ASP.NET Web API supports both v3 and v4 of the protocol.
How do I learn OData?
Creation of Odata services for beginners
- Provide the name of your project and a project with the following structure gets created.
- Data Model: It contains three subfolders.
- Right-click on entity type folder and choose to create.
- Double click on properties, here we add the fields to our entity type.
How is the OData protocol different from REST Web Services?
The OData Protocol is an application-level protocol for interacting with data via RESTful web services. The OData Protocol is different from other REST-based web service approaches in that it provides a uniform way to describe both the data and the data model.
How to query business Central as an OData web service?
When you expose a Business Central query as an OData web service, you can query that data to return a service metadata (EDMX) document or an AtomPub document. For more information about how to create and use Business Central queries, see Query Object.
What’s the difference between OData and resource based?
Resource based means that data and functionalities are considered as resources. OData is a web based protocol that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful web services. OData is a way to create RESTful web services thus an implementation of REST. Highly active question.
What is the meaning of the term OData?
OData, short for Open Data Protocol, is an open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way.