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Bulk Operations Support in OData Web API

December 28, 2022 Dec 28, 2022 12/28/22
Elizabeth Okerio
Good news! OData Web API 7.x now supports bulk operations. Install the most recent version of OData Web API 7.x(v7.6.3) to take advantage of bulk operations. A bulk operation is one that allows you to perform multiple operations (insert, update, delete) on multiple resources (of the same type) and their nested resources (to any level) ...

Extension: Omit null value properties in ASP.NET Core OData

September 7, 2022 Sep 7, 2022 09/7/22
Sam Xu
Introduction By default, ASP.NET Core OData serializes a single value property as “null”, and a collection value property as an empty array if its value is null as such: It’s good for most scenarios. However, omitting those 'annoying' null-value properties from the OData response gets more and more attention. Along with the latest ...

Using the new JSON writer in OData

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22
Clément Habinshuti
Microsoft.OData.Core version 7.12.2 has introduced a new JSON writer that’s based on .NET’s Utf8JsonWriter. The current JSON writer used in Microsoft.OData.Core, internally called JsonWriter, is a custom implementation that uses TextWriter to write the JSON output to the destination stream. We decided to write a new implementation to take ...
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Tutorial: Build gRPC & OData in ASP.NET Core

April 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 04/20/22
Sam Xu
Introduction gRPC (google Remote Procedure Call) is a high-performance remote procedure call framework that helps developers to build and consume remote services using the same way as calling local APIs. Different from gRPC, OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for developers to build and ...

Customizing $filter for spatial data in ASP.NET Core OData 8

February 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022 02/22/22
Kennedy Kangethe Munga
Background The OData URI parser parses the $filter query to a FilterClause. The FilterBinder translates an OData $filter parse tree represented by a FilterClause to an Expression. The Expression can be applied to an IQueryable and passed to an ORM (e.g Entity Framework Core) for processing. The FilterBinder contains the default ...
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$compute and $search in ASP.NET Core OData 8

January 11, 2022 Jan 11, 2022 01/11/22
Sam Xu
Introduction OData system query options, such as $filter, $orderby, are a set of query string parameters that control the amount and order of the data returned for the resource identified by the URL. In the latest version of ASP.NET Core OData, two new system query options as follows are enabled: Along with other query options, $...

The Future of OData NxT (Neo)

January 4, 2022 Jan 4, 2022 01/4/22
Hassan Habib
Few months ago I announced a collaboration with the OData team to start building a new version of OData that can withstand the forever changing requirements in software design and architecture. I got together with Sam Xu and we decided to kick-off a spin-off version of OData.NET that I called OData NxT (Neo) OData Neo is an attempt to ...

Support for fetching nested paths in OData Web API

August 26, 2021 Aug 26, 2021 08/26/21
Clément Habinshuti
Background OData services use nested paths to access properties or entities related to a resource. For example, if you want to access orders of a given customer, you would use a request path like: http://localhost:8080/Customers/1/Orders Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData 7.x provides two main approaches for handling such requests: convention ...
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Build formatter extensions in ASP.NET Core OData 8 and hooks in ODataConnectedService

August 23, 2021 Aug 23, 2021 08/23/21
Sam Xu
Introduction In this post, I will create formatter extensions in an OData web service and request/response hooks in an OData client application to generate/consume ETag control information. ETag (aka entity tag), one of OData control information that may be applied to an entity or collection in response, can be used in a subsequent request to...