Is OData better than REST?

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REST is the most important component technology of OData. According to the OData 3.0 standards, OData users should follow REST principles “unless there is a good and specific reason not to.” The OData standard also defines the data model that is used to transfer data in response to a REST request. 16 дек. 2020 г.

What are the advantages of OData over REST?

Here are few advantages of OData. OData is a open protocol started by Microsoft is based on Rest Services so we can get data base on URL. It suppport various protocol like http,atom,pub and also support JSON format. No need to create proxy classes which we used to do it in web service.

Is REST and OData same?

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer which is a resource based architectural style. Resource based means that data and functionalities are considered as resources. OData is a web based protocol that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful web services.

What is better than OData?

GraphQL is a self-contained and powerful query language, including all the things for querying and implementing the Rest API. So it is more powerful in comparison to OData. GraphQL supports joins relationships, sorting, versioning, pagination from a single request/ response round trip.

Why is OData not popular?

The interface errs on the side of being too liberal in what it will accept. The contract does not provide enough information to consumers on how to use the service. If a consumer must read something other than the service's signature to understand how to use the service, the factoring of the service should be reviewed.

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