Is it really possible to build web APIs with OData support using ASP.NET Core without using an Entity Data Model (EDM)

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Is it really possible to build web APIs with OData support using ASP.NET Core without using an Entity Data Model (EDM)

darraghjones opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Darragh Jones commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OData-docs/blob/master/Odata-docs/webapi/first-odata-api.md

Darragh Jones · Answer 1 · Tue May 11 2021 21:47:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Apparently is it...although it seems some features don't work...? for example i couldn't get paging to work

Sam Xu · Answer 2 · Fri Feb 25 2022 15:09:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@darraghjones the latest ASP.NET Core 7.x and 8.x support the Web APIs without using EDM. Please try and let us know any problems. Thanks.

Darragh Jones · Answer 3 · Sun Feb 27 2022 00:28:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for your comment @xuzhg. However, perhaps my question wasn't really clear. The point i was making is that without defining an EDM, the reponse doesn't appear to confirm to the odata 'spec'. i.e. there's no enevelope with an @odata.context attribute for example like there is here: https://services.odata.org/v4/TripPinServiceRW/People

I appreciate I have the abilty to use the odata query syntax in the URL by adding the [EnableQuery] attribute, but I'm not sure if this is sufficent to declare these APIs are being 'Odata'. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, thanks.