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ASP.NET Core OData - OData

Enable Un-typed within ASP.NET Core OData

June 19, 2023 Jun 19, 2023 06/19/23
Sam Xu
Introduction The latest ASP.NET Core OData supports the following two built-in OData abstract types: Developers can use them to advertise a property in OData metadata schema (aka, Edm model) so that such property is declared with a particular name present, but there is no type associated to describe the structure of the ...

Enable CBOR within ASP.NET Core OData

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
Sam Xu
Introduction CBOR, which stands for Concise Binary Object Representation, is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation (from cbor.io). CBOR is based on the wildly successful JSON (aka, JavaScript Object Notation) data ...

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 ...

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...