The query options part of an OData URL can be quite long, potentially exceeding the maximum length of URLs supported by components involved in transmitting or processing the request. HTTP does not impose any limits on the length of a URL, however, many hosting environments (including IIS) impose limitations which may restrict the client's ability t...
This post introduces the Web API Authorization library which automatically enforces the permissions defined in your OData model on your Web API endpoints.
This post announces release of OData Connected Service v0.11.1 and its new features and bug fixes.
Introduction In the previous version of ASP.NET Core OData, such as 6.x and 7.x version, the OData routing is IRouter-based Web API Routing, that is, OData router is a Router implementing IRouter interface. Even in the ASP.NET Core OData 7.x Endpoint Routing, it is also related to the IRouter routing. Since 8.0, we want to build the OData routing ...
Recently, OData team released the 8.0.0 preview version of ASP.NET Core OData on nuget.org. It is the first version of OData supporting .NET 5, especially for ASP.NET Core 5. This version includes some breaking changes, such as model builder separation, namespace changes and configuration changes etc. Most importantly, the routing mechanism is chan...
When working with open types in an OData service, dynamic properties are held in a container property of type . However, support for a similar container property has traditionally been absent in OData client. For this reason, dynamic properties returned from an OData service could only be mapped to declared properties on the client backing type. Wh...
Introduction We talked in the past about some of the most powerful features OData has to offer such as shaping, filtering and ordering your data all within your API request. But with an API GET request you can only do so much before you reach the maximum length of a URL which is a standard limitation. For instance, let's assume we are lookin...
OData Connected Service 0.10.0 has been released and is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace. This release includes the following features and fixes: 1. Support for Open Types Open Types are entity or complex types in OData which have dynamic properties (i.e. properties not declared in the schema). Previously, OData Connecte...
We talked in previous articles about the amount of enterprise technologies that offer OData out-of-the-box for it’s RESTFul API communications. some of these technologies are widely spread such as SharePoint, SAP, SQL Server and so many other technologies that leverage a multi-billion user powerful technology like OData. In this article, I’m goi...
How to empower developers to build OData Edm model easily from their data model (C# classes) is one of the most important task in OData team. Today, we are pleased to announce the first beta version of OData model builder available at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.OData.ModelBuilder. Please try this package by installing as: The ba...
