OData

Enabling Endpoint Routing in OData

Hassan HabibMarch 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20

Few months ago we announced an experimental release of OData for ASP.NET Core 3.1, and for those who could move forward with their applications without leveraging endpoint routing, the release was considered final, although not ideal. But for those who have existing APIs or were planning to develop new APIs leveraging endpoint routing, the ...

Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 3)

Hassan HabibJanuary 5, 2020Jan 5, 202001/5/20

Sometimes requiring to build an entire ASP.NET Core application just for the purpose of exposing a RESTFul API endpoint to give your API consumers the ability to query, filter and order the data could be a bit of an overhead, especially if you are not planning on adding in any additional business logic between your data and it's consumers. ...

$select Enhancement in ASP.NET Core OData

Sam XuDecember 30, 2019Dec 30, 201912/30/19

The release of ASP.NET Core OData v7.3 brings a ton of improvements to $select functionality. In this article, I’d like to introduce some of the new features of $select and its usages in combination with other query options like $filter, $top, $skip, $orderby, $count and $expand. This tutorial assumes that you already have the knowledge to ...

Experimenting with OData in ASP.NET Core 3.1

Hassan HabibDecember 21, 2019Dec 21, 201912/21/19

A lot of developers have asked me recently about OData compatibility with ASP.NET Core 3.0 and again with .NET Core 3.1 after it’s very recent release. This demand became more and more critical with the recent announcement from the .NET team around .NET Core 2.2 reaching the end of its life on Dec 23rd of this year. And because of all ...

Optimizing Web Applications with OData $Select

Hassan HabibOctober 25, 2019Oct 25, 201910/25/19

OData as an API technology comes in with so many options that gives API consumers the power to shape, filter, order and navigate through the data with very few lines of code. In my previous articles I talked in details about how to enable OData on your existing ASP.NET Core API using the EDM model, in addition to that I have provided a code...

Customize Control Information for full metadata requests in odata.net

Kanish ManujaAugust 12, 2019Aug 12, 201908/12/19

Background OData supports three metadata levels for the JSON format, namely - No Metadata as the name suggests does not include control information other than nextLink and count. Minimal metadata responses usually include context, etag, deltalink etc. whereas full metadata responses contain all the control information like ...

Using SkipToken for Paging in Asp.Net OData and Asp.Net Core OData

Kanish ManujaAugust 7, 2019Aug 7, 201908/7/19

Loading large data can be slow. Services often rely on pagination to load the data incrementally to improve the response times and the user experience. Paging can be server-driven or client-driven: Client-driven paging In client-driven paging, the client decides how many records it wants to load and asks the server for that many records. ...

Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 2)

Hassan HabibAugust 4, 2019Aug 4, 201908/4/19

In the first article of this series, we talked about integrating Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Core application powered by OData using a pre-built solution that was using Cosmos Client to run full CRUD operations. But that's not the only way we can work with Cosmos DB from ASP.NET Core - there are two more approaches that we could follow to work ...

Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 1)

Hassan HabibJuly 27, 2019Jul 27, 201907/27/19

We talked in previous articles about the pluggability of OData with any storage technology regardless of its schema, whether it’s a SQL-based storage, NoSQL, In-Memory or simply a file on a hard-drive. This power of OData enables developers to work with powerful, planet-scale storage technologies such as Cosmos DB. In this article we ...

Enabling Pagination in Blazor with OData

Hassan HabibMay 19, 2019May 19, 201905/19/19

Summary We talked in a previous article about enabling OData in your existing ASP.NET Core API using EDM. One of the biggest advantages of following that method is to be able to take advantage of functionality such as count to enable an on-demand function in almost every web application such as navigation. In this article, we are going ...