OData

OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard for building and consuming RESTful web services. OData enables exchange of data across web clients using HTTP messages.

The OData protocol mandates that a compliant web service must:

• declare an Entity Data Model (EDM) at a well-known URL.

• provide a uniform way to form URLs for entities and entity sets defined in the EDM.

• enable clients to send HTTP requests POST, GET, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE on entity and entity set URLs for creating, reading, updating, and deleting entities.

• support request headers and query parameters for client interaction as defined in the standard.

Please refer to the following resources for more information on OData, version 4.0:

• OData.org—Documentation on basics of OData.

• OData Protocol—Documentation of the protocol.

• Common Schema Definition Language (CSDL)—Documentation of the format used to document the EDM of a service.

• URL Conventions—Documentation of how to form URLs for entities and entity sets of an OData service.