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OData services support requests for data via HTTP GET requests.
Requesting Entity Collections
The request below returns the the collection of Person People.
GET serviceRoot/People
Response Payload
{ "@odata.context": "serviceRoot/$metadata#People", "@odata.nextLink": "serviceRoot/People?%24skiptoken=8", "value": [ { "@odata.id": "serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')", "@odata.etag": "W/\"08D1694BD49A0F11\"", "@odata.editLink": "serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')", "UserName": "russellwhyte", "FirstName": "Russell", "LastName": "Whyte", "Emails": [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ], "AddressInfo": [ { "Address": "187 Suffolk Ln.", "City": { "CountryRegion": "United States", "Name": "Boise", "Region": "ID" } } ], "Gender": "Male", "Concurrency": 635404796846280400 }, ...... , { "@odata.id": "serviceRoot/People('keithpinckney')", "@odata.etag": "W/\"08D1694BD49A0F11\"", "@odata.editLink": "serviceRoot/People('keithpinckney')", "UserName": "keithpinckney", "FirstName": "Keith", "LastName": "Pinckney", "Emails": [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ], "AddressInfo": [], "Gender": "Male", "Concurrency": 635404796846280400 } ]}Requesting an Individual Entity by ID
The request below returns an individual entity of type Person by the given UserName "russellwhyte"GET serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')
Response Payload
{ "@odata.context": "serviceRoot/$metadata#People/$entity", "@odata.id": "serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')", "@odata.etag": "W/\"08D1694BF26D2BC9\"", "@odata.editLink": "serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')", "UserName": "russellwhyte", "FirstName": "Russell", "LastName": "Whyte", "Emails": [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ], "AddressInfo": [ { "Address": "187 Suffolk Ln.", "City": { "CountryRegion": "United States", "Name": "Boise", "Region": "ID" } } ], "Gender": "Male", "Concurrency": 635404797346655200}Requesting an Individual Property
To address an entity property clients append a path segment containing property name to the URL of the entity. If the property has a complex type, properties of that value can be addressed by further property name composition.First let's take a look at how to get a simple property. The request below returns the Name property of an Airport.
GET serviceRoot/Airports('KSFO')/Name
Response Payload
{ "@odata.context": "serviceRoot/$metadata#Airports('KSFO')/Name", "value": "San Francisco International Airport"}Then let's see how to get a property value of a complex type. The request below returns the Address of the complex type Location in an Airport.GET serviceRoot/Airports('KSFO')/Location/Address
Response Payload
{"@odata.context": "serviceRoot/$metadata#Airports('KSFO')/Location/Address","value": "South McDonnell Road, San Francisco, CA 94128"}Requesting an Individual Property Raw Value
To address the raw value of a primitive property, clients append a path segment containing the string $value to the property URL. The request below returns the raw value of property Name of an Airport.
GET serviceRoot/Airports('KSFO')/Name/$value
Response Payload
San Francisco International Airport