Using OData Data Sources in SharePoint 2013 Solutions Hunter

What is OData? Protocol for interacting with RESTful services Microsoft Open Specifications Promise Operates over HTTP Returns ATOM or JSON

What are RESTful services? Focuses on resources Relatively simple to use Four principles ▫Use HTTP methods appropriately ▫Be stateless ▫Expose data in a directory structure ▫Transfer either XML or JSON

SOAP vs. REST SOAPREST Data Formatting: XMLData Formatting: XML or JSON Transports: Pretty much anything Transports: HTTP Supports stateful operationsCompletely Stateless Allows for caching results

REST URL Examples and Name%20eq%20'Bad%20News%20Bears'

OData Principles Metadata Data Querying Editing Operations Vocabularies

Data Model Entities Entity sets Relationships

Data Model Complex types Entity key Properties ▫Declared properties ▫Open entity types/dynamic properties Operations/Functions/Actions

Data model Structural elements Row types Resources Annotations/Vocabularies

Service Model Metadata document Service document

OData Providers SharePoint itself Azure, Azure Marketplace SQL Reporting Services Dynamics CRM Many public feeds ▫Netflix ▫eBay ▫Twitpic ▫Windows Live

OData Players

BCS Overview Similarities to ORMs External Content Types Connectors SharePoint Interface

BCS Overview Metadata store Secure Store Services External Lists New for SharePoint 2013 ▫Performance ▫Model generation ▫SharePoint 2013 apps

BCS Stereotypes StereotypeHTTP VerbExample FinderGet Specific FinderGet er=Name%20eq%20'Bad%20News%20Bears ' CreatorPost UpdaterPut er=Name%20eq%20'Bad%20News%20Bears ' DeleterDelete er=Name%20eq%20'Bad%20News%20Bears ' Association NavigatorGet rror')/Titles

External Lists Overview Data source Improvements in SharePoint 2013 Export/offline access

Remote Event Receivers New in SharePoint 2013 Added BDC stereotypes New Functionality

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