Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC

Sam Xu April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21

Introduction Attribute routing is how Web API matches the incoming HTTP requests to an action based on route template attributes decorated on controller or action. ASP.NET Core defines a set of route template attributes to enable attribute routing, such as RouteAttribute, HttpGetAttribute etc. ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC supports these ...

OData Connected Service 0.12.0 Release

Clement Habinshuti February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21

OData Connected Service 0.12.0 has been released on the Visual Studio Marketplace. This release includes the following changes:   Restored default settings Some default options were inadvertently changed in a previous update, leading to default options that do not make sense for the majority of use cases. We have ...

Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body

John Gathogo December 4, 2020 Dec 4, 2020 12/4/20

The query options part of an OData URL can be quite long, potentially exceeding the maximum length of URLs supported by components involved in transmitting or processing the request. HTTP does not impose any limits on the length of a URL, however, many hosting environments (including IIS) impose limitations which may restrict the client's ...

Introducing the OData Web API Authorization library

Clement Habinshuti November 16, 2020 Nov 16, 2020 11/16/20

This post introduces the Web API Authorization library which automatically enforces the permissions defined in your OData model on your Web API endpoints.

OData Connected Service 0.11.1 Release

Clement Habinshuti November 11, 2020 Nov 11, 2020 11/11/20

This post announces release of OData Connected Service v0.11.1 and its new features and bug fixes.

Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview

Sam Xu November 2, 2020 Nov 2, 2020 11/2/20

Introduction In the previous version of ASP.NET Core OData, such as 6.x and 7.x version, the OData routing is IRouter-based Web API Routing, that is, OData router is a Router implementing IRouter interface. Even in the ASP.NET Core OData 7.x Endpoint Routing, it is also related to the IRouter routing. Since 8.0, we want to build the OData ...

ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5

Sam Xu October 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020 10/19/20

Recently, OData team released the 8.0.0 preview version of ASP.NET Core OData on nuget.org. It is the first version of OData supporting .NET 5, especially for ASP.NET Core 5. This version includes some breaking changes, such as model builder separation, namespace changes and configuration changes etc. Most importantly, the routing mechanism is...

Dynamic properties container property in OData Client

John Gathogo September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20

When working with open types in an OData service, dynamic properties are held in a container property of type IDictionary<string, object>. However, support for a similar container property has traditionally been absent in OData client. For this reason, dynamic properties returned from an OData service could only be mapped to declared ...

All in One with OData $Batch

Hassan Habib July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

Introduction We talked in the past about some of the most powerful features OData has to offer such as shaping, filtering and ordering your data all within your API request. But with an API GET request you can only do so much before you reach the maximum length of a URL which is a standard limitation. For instance, let's assume we are ...

OData Connected Service 0.10.0 Release

Clement Habinshuti May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

OData Connected Service 0.10.0 has been released and is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace. This release includes the following features and fixes: 1. Support for Open Types Open Types are entity or complex types in OData which have dynamic properties (i.e. properties not declared in the schema). Previously, OData ...