Published OData Resource

Adding or Editing a Resource

Add a Resource

Click Add in the Resources pane of the Published OData Service window to open the Select Entity window. Select an entity to publish and click Select.

An alternative way to add a resource is in the Domain Model: right-click an entity and select Expose as OData resource.

To add a resource, click the OData service name in the Select Published Data Service window, and click Select.

To create a new OData service and add the entity to it, click New and enter the name of the service you want to create in the Add Published OData Service dialog box.

Edit a Resource

In the Resources pane of the Published OData Service window, select a resource and click Edit to display the Edit published resource window.

It is possible to select another Entity or view the entity in the domain model by clicking Show. The exposed attributes and associations for the selected entity can be set in this window.

Specify the location where the resource will be published in Example of location.

In the Public documentation tab, you can provide a summary and a description of the exposed entity.

Selecting Exposed Attributes and Associations

In the Edit published resource window, select Exposed attributes and associations to display the list of attributes and associations for the entity.

Attributes of published entities are Nillable by default. This means that if their value is empty then they will be encoded as explicit nulls in the OData content. If Nillable is unchecked for an attribute, the attribute cannot be empty (as this will result in a runtime error).

Mapping from Internal Names to Exposed Names

Use Exposed entity name in the Edit published resource window to customize the name of the resource that is exposed to the outside world. The default is the name of the exposed entity in the domain model. The Exposed entity name must start with a letter followed by letters or digits with a maximum length of 480 characters.

Attributes and associations can be customized in the same way in the Exposed attributes and associations list window under the Exposed name column.

For associations, the exposed name is the name given to the navigation property (which is the property referring to the associated object(s)). The default is the same as the name of the association in the domain model.

These features make it easier to refactor the domain model without affecting external APIs.

Exposed Set Name

It is possible to customize the name of the entity set that is displayed in the Exposed set name field of the Edit published resource window. This forms the last part of the URL of the resource as given in the Example of location.

Default: {Entity name}s

Use Paging

The Use paging option is used to set a maximum number of objects per response and include a link to the next set of objects. A client such as Tableau is able use this to display progress and automatically continue to follow the links until all the data is retrieved. The memory usage of the clients can be improved if paging is set to a reasonable page size.

Default: No

Setting Use paging to Yes may result in inconsistency in the retrieved data because the data will not be retrieved in a single transaction. As an example, sorting on the Age attribute in an entity called Customer and retrieving customers set to 1000 objects per page. If a customer is deleted between two calls, then the customer with Age 23 at position 1001 then moves to position 1000. This means that the object that would be the first item on the second page is moved to the first page and is no longer retrieved. Similarly, data inserted between calls can result in a duplication of the data. This option should only be used when this kind of inconsistency is acceptable.

Page Size

When Use paging is set to Yes, the number of objects per page can be set in Page size.

Default: 10000