What is the difference between REST and OData?

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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. 21 нояб. 2011 г.

What is OData in REST?

OData is a standard from Microsoft that relies on the REST Architecture to send specific types of messages over HTTP. It defines metadata in CSDL (Common Schema Definition Language) format to describe the Entity types supported by your Service and their Properties, Data types, and more.

What is the difference between OData REST and SOAP?

OData services are lightweight, with functionality often referenced directly in the URI. Whereas SOAP web services expose a WSDL document, OData web services expose an EDMX document containing metadata for all published web services.

Is SAP OData a REST API?

OData is REST based protocol to access and update the data. OData is build on Atom Publishing Protocol(AtomPub), XML and JSON. This make the protocol easy to understand and use. In short OData is an Online Database Connectivity(ODBC) for the web.

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.

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