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August 2023 - OData

Working with media resources in OData – Part 2

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23
John Gathogo
In Part 1 of this blog post, we demonstrated how to implement an OData service that serves media resources. In Part 2, we look at how to implement a client app that interacts with the OData binary large object (BLOB) feed to both retrieve and post binary data along with the metadata for the media resource. The OData BLOB feed created in ...

Working with media resources in OData – Part 1

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23
John Gathogo
OData enables you to define data feeds that serve binary large object (BLOB) data. In OData lingo, this binary data is referred to as a media resource. A media resource (MR) is an unstructured piece of data or stream, e.g., a document, image, or video. It is requested from the data service separately from the entry in the feed to which it ...