OData
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OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs.
OData provides a rich query language with capabilities for sorting, filtering, querying and reducing fields in the output of the API.
OData helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc. OData also provides guidance for tracking changes, defining functions/actions for reusable procedures, and sending asynchronous/batch requests.
OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs, enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools.
Resources
XOData is a generic online OData API/Service visualizer and explorer. It assists in rapid prototyping, verification, testing, and documentation of OData APIs. With XOData Chrome App it's also possible to explore OData Services deployed locally or on private networks.
OData for Visual Studio Code is a Visual Studio Code extension that adds rich support for the OData query language
