What is OData services in SAP HANA?

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OData Service in SAP HANA: An OData service exposes data stored in database tables or views as OData collections for analysis and display by client applications. The client can be web browser, or SAPUI5 application or HTML5 application or any other application which supports OData.

What is an OData service?

OData is a REST-based protocol for querying and updating data. It is built on technologies like HTTP, ATOM/XML and JSON.

What is OData used for in SAP?

OData is a Web protocol for querying and updating data, applying and building on Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to provide access to information from a variety of applications.

What is OData services in SAP Fiori?

Advertisements. OData is used to define best practices that are required to build and consume RESTful APIs. It helps you to find out changes, defining functions for reusable procedures and sending batch requests etc.

Where is OData service in SAP?

Log on to your front-end server (your SAP Gateway system). and execute the Customizing activity. As a quick shortcut to the same screen, use transaction /n/IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE. The Service Catalog shows you all the services that are currently active in your SAP Gateway system.

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