Everyone is using REST APIs nowadays, despite the fact that HTTP is an inherently unreliable protocol. So how to deal with "lost requests" and "lost responses"? Not a problem for GET requests: just repeat them if you get no answer - GET is "safe" and...
Seven years ago we published OData 4.0 as a set of OASIS Standards - now we have the next incremental, fully compatible "release": the OData 4.01 specifications – Core, JSON Data, JSON Metadata, and XML Metadata – are approved as OASIS Standards and ...
When I try to upload a new version of an XML file attached to one of my Community wiki pages, I get the following error message:
The following error(s) occurred:
Virus found in file :upload_d9501a77_068b_4d4d_9554_eaffcb9eb77e_000...
Four years after OData V4 became an OASIS standard, and two years after it became the ISO/IEC 20802 standard, the first “feature pack” for OData V4 has been officially published.
The complete set of changes is described in What’s New in OData Versio...
Usually REST APIs produce minimized JSON without any line breaks or indentation, which preserves bandwidth and is fine if a machine is reading the produced JSON.
If however the intended audience mainly consists of humans, e.g. if the JSON files need...
You're welcome! And please add your use case to OData TC issue https://github.com/oasis-tcs/odata-specs/issues/279 to give us real-world examples on which to test a potential specification extension.
SAP offers APIs that are specifically built for application-to-application communication, see https://api.sap.com/alltypes.The majority of these APIs are OData APIs, and for S/4HANA they can be seen as successors of RFCs and BAPIs for synchronous A2A...
I tried it with cds-compiler 4.7.6 and function foo() returns many test.manyString; type manyString : many String This resulted in <Function Name="foo" IsBound="false" IsComposable="false"> <ReturnType Type="Collection(test.manyString)" Nullabl...
Hello Daniel,This compiler change only affects compilation "to EDMX" and "to EDM JSON", that is generating OData $metadata.OData does not yet support arrays of arrays, and a CDS model using them cannot be served with the OData protocol. This means th...