What is the use of OData in SAP?

Why OData is used in SAP?

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. OData provides facility for extension to fulfill any custom needs of your RESTful APIs.

What is the purpose of OData?

OData helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats and query options etc.

What is OData services in SAP HANA?

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.

Is SAP OData a REST API?

An application programming interface (API) allows you to access data, for example, monitoring data. The OData API is implemented as a REST API and the technical protocol is Open Data Protocol (OData). This means that you can use standard HTTP methods (for example, the GET method) to call the API.