John Gathogo

Senior Software Engineer

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Working with media resources in OData – Part 2

August 8th, 2023
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 8th, 2023
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 ...

Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body

December 4th, 2020
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 ...

Dynamic properties container property in OData Client

September 8th, 2020
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 ...

OData Connected Service 0.9.0 Release

April 21st, 2020
OData Connected Service 0.9.0 has been released and is now available on Visual Studio Marketplace. This release adds the following features and bug fixes:  You can get the extension from Visual Studio Marketplace      ...