OData: a few notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/12
You can’t keep track of the whole world, so every now and then I bump into something and think “boy I wish I had known about this years ago”.
The OData (Open Data Protocol) standard by Microsoft is such a thing. It allows to communicate data over the internet in a RESTful way using either JSON or AtomPub based XML, standardized by OASIS who has it’s roots in the SGML world (SGML is one of the predecessors of XML).
There is a rich Ecosystem of implementations in many platforms (including .NET, Delphi, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc) with public reachable Example Services to test with (not surprising there is a NorthWind service).
Here are a few links of stuff I want to dig deeper into it to grasp it better:
- Open Data Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Home | Open Data Protocol | ODataOpen Data Protocol | OData.
- Ecosystem Archive | Open Data Protocol | ODataOpen Data Protocol | OData.
- Atom (standard) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- OASIS (organization) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Standard Generalized Markup Language – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- JSON – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- XML – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- JSON Format | Open Data Protocol | ODataOpen Data Protocol | OData.
- Atom Format | Open Data Protocol | ODataOpen Data Protocol | OData.
- how to return json format from ODATA? – Stack Overflow.
- “northwind” example – Google Search.
I have a project with a Delphi service and a Smart Mobile Studio client in the pipeline for trying this, so these are a few specific links I might need as well:
- Using Delphi to consume oData service recommendations – Stack Overflow.
- Consume oData service from Delphi – Stack Overflow.
- Enabling OData Access in your Data Abstract Server (Delphi) – RemObjects Wiki.
- OData | Oregon Delphi User Group.
- DevExpress 2012 roadmap published – ctodx.
- 2012 Roadmap – Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, MVC, Reports, CodeRush – DevExpress.
- OData – The One With.
- E4389 – How to: Use the XPO OData V3 Service | DevExpress Support Center.
–jeroen






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