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LanguagesWhat is OData?
It is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc.
OData is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
OData RESTful APIs are easy to consumeISO/IEC approved
OData Pros & Cons
Pros of OData
- ✓Patterns for paging, sorting, filtering
- ✓ISO Standard
- ✓Query Language
- ✓No overfetching, no underfetching
- ✓RESTful
- ✓Ask for what you need, get exactly that
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Bulk requests ("array upsert")
- ✓Get many resources in a single request
- ✓Self-documenting
Cons of OData
- ✗Overwhelming, no "baby steps" documentation
OData Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OData?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
