What is OData?

OData is the third major standard I'm going…to describe in this course, after REST and SOAP.…OData stands for Open Data Protocol.…If SOAP edits core is a message format, and REST is a set of…architectural principles, then OData can be thought of as a combination of the two.…OData is a RESTful architecture.…>> It expects requests formed as URIs instead of XML or JSON.…And in its…most recent form, can return data formatted as either XML or JSON.…But because it's more specific than just REST, its message formats are fixed.…

And the particular XML format that it works with is ATOM.…And because you know exactly what the return messages…will look like, software vendors can create application development toolkits.…Similar to what happened with SOAP that…protected the developer from having to explicitly…create or parse the messages.…OData was originally championed by Microsoft, and they continue to…integrate it deeply into their cloud and their server-side technologies.…Microsoft cloud services such as Azure and…