OData -Jacob ReimersSoftware Architect, Roche Diagnostics Intl.jacob@reimers.dk@jjrdk

The Standard and How to Consume it on Win8 / WP8

Agenda

Agenda

What is OData? 15’ Protocol Overview Ecosystem Benefits

Consuming OData?

30’ Create a Windows Store App

Questions?

5’

What is OData?

Chapter 1/3

Protocol Overview

DescriptionA Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today.

Open StandardOASIS Protocol, currently V3Built on existing standards:• AtomPub• JSON

Open to interested participants

Protocol Overview

StructuredProvides a structured description of a model and the semantics of the operations that can be performed on it.

UniformProvides a uniform way to

ExposeStructureManipulate andQuery data

Protocol Overview

Uniform Service InterfaceURI Protocol

Service RootResource PathQuery Options

MetadataAllows description of payload data

Structured

Service URI

Resource

Query

http://nuget.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=Id+eq+’odata’

Client and Server Libraries

WCF Data ServicesWCF Data Services 5.0 for OData V3The official OData client and server librarySupports .NET 4 and Silverlight 4

Open Source LibrariesProvide support for additional platforms and devices

Consuming OData?

Chapter 2/3

Ecosystem

Existing Data SourcesNuget - http://nuget.org/api/v2StackOverflow - http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/atomWindows Live – Requires registered accountPluralsight - http://www.pluralsight-training.net/odata/

eBay - http://ebayodata.cloudapp.net/docsOGDI DataLab - http://dev.govdata.eu/DBpedia - http://dbpedia.org/fctNetflix - http://odata.netflix.com/

Demo

Building a Windows Store App that uses ODataA query of the Nuget package feed

Links

Information SourcesOData site - http://www.odata.org/OASIS OData TC - https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=odataChris Woodruff - http://chriswoodruff.com/

Libraries‘Official’ Library List - http://www.odata.org/libraries/Linq2Rest - http://nuget.org/packages/linq2restLinq2Rest.Reactive - http://nuget.org/packages/linq2rest.reactivePushqa.Server - http://nuget.org/packages/pushqa.serverNancy.Odata - http://nuget.org/packages/nancy.odata

Questions?

Chapter 3/3