ODATA UNLEASHED! Let‟s Learn How to Exploit It

About me    

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Boris Tsirulnik [email protected] Software Architect

Graduated in Computer Sciences – 2002 Working in SAP Labs Israel since 2003 Core expertise in Java, Eclipse and Android

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Introduction to OData OData Development Tools for Eclipse Toss in a demo to make it look longer  OData Development Tools contribution to Eclipse Ask questions any time

Technology Tipping Point Requires New IT Approach

New devices and experiences Consumer innovations in the enterprise

Growing new communities of agile developers

Simple access to complex enterprise systems

Expansion of business data and decision makers

Manage and control mission critical systems AND deploy innovative solutions

What is OData? Clients

HTTP RESTFUL

Servers

GET POST PUT DELETE

Consumers

Producers

ATOM JSON

What is OData? “SQL for the web” metaphor OData can be used to access tablelike structures similar to the way SQL does 

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Entity Data Model (EDM) to describe OData Services Each entity can support Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations Can navigate relationships

What is OData? “SQL for the web” metaphor OData

SQL/Database

OData Service

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Database Schema

Entity Type

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Database Table

Function Import

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Stored Procedure

GET method

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SELECT statement

POST method

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INSERT statement

PUT method

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UPDATE statement

DELETE method

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DELETE statement

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What is OData? OData in Design-time (Model)

What is OData? OData in Design-time (Entity Data Model ) 

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EntityTypes – data model definitions(for example customer, product), structured types consisting of list of properties (simple or complex) Complex Types - structured types also consisting of a list of properties but with no key EntitySets – collections of Entities Associations - define the relationship between two or more Entity Types Navigation Properties - special properties on Entity Types which are bound to a specific association and can be used to refer to associations of an entity

What is OData? OData in Design-time (the metadata of OData)

What is OData? OData in Run-time  GET http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Genres  GET http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Genres('Romantic%20Movies')  GET http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Genres('Romantic%20Movies')/Titles  GET http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Titles('ApSU3')

http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/People?$filter=Name%20eq%20'christopher%20nolan„ http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/People?$filter=Name%20eq%20'christopher%20nolan' &$expand=Awards,TitlesDirected&$format=json

Why OData? ODATA PROPRIETRY

XML ATOM JSON

ODATA PROPRIETRY

Data Structure Query Syntax Possible Actions Documentation

ODATA PROPRIETRY

Why OData? 

The OData Protocol is different from other RESTbased web service approaches in that it provides a uniform way to describe both the data and the data model

OData Development Tools for Eclipse Motivation 

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Lower the barrier for developers to produce and consume OData Enable developers to extend the tools for different environments (Android, PHP)

OData Development Tools for Eclipse Features   

Model new OData services Visualize and explore existing OData services Consume existing OData services in Java 

Starter Application Semantic Proxies

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Java Client Library

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OData Development Tools for Eclipse Extensibility 

Extend the existing Java Toolkit 

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Create new consumption Toolkits  

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Starter Applications

Starter Applications Semantic Proxies

Add support for additional model import sources (e.g. Excel spreadsheet, Database schema, etc.)

Demo

OData Development Tools for Eclipse Open Source Contribution 

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SAP plans to contribute these tools to the Eclipse community We are looking for mentors from Eclipse Architecture Council

Stuff I Didn‟t Cover  

How to create OData Producer Advanced OData features  Service

Operations (Function Import)  URI query options ($top, $orderby, $expand etc.)  Batch operations 

Security

URI Conventions URI

Used for

Example

$links

Get all associations between entries

http://localhost:8080/odata_exam ple/odatajpa.svc/SupplierParts(1L)/ $links/part

$orderby Order data based on desc or asc (default) options

http://localhost:8080/odata_exam ple/odatajpa.svc/SupplierParts?$or derby=quantity desc

$top

Return first N items of the set

http://localhost:8080/odata_exam ple/odatajpa.svc/SupplierParts?$or derby=quantity desc&$top=4

$skip

Skip the first N records of the entity set and get next

http://localhost:8080/odata_exam ple/odatajpa.svc/SupplierParts?$ski p=2&$top=2

$filter

Select only subset of entities that http://localhost:8080/odata_exam match the predicates provided – ple/odatajpa.svc/SupplierParts?$filt rich set of operators and er=(quantity gt 200 and quantity lt

URI Conventions URI

Used for

Example

$expand Eagerly load associations inline

http://localhost:8080/odata_example /odatajpa.svc/Supplier?$expand=sup plierParts

$format

Specify what media type to be used for response(Atom/Xml/Json)

http://localhost:8080/odata_example /odatajpa.svc/Supplier?$expand=sup plierParts&$format=Json

$select

Return only subset of properties

http://localhost:8080/odata_example /odatajpa.svc/Supplier?$select=suppli erCity, supplierId

$inlineco unt

Response should include the count on entities after applying $filter. Valid values are allpages/none

http://localhost:8080/odata_example /odatajpa.svc/Supplier?$inlinecount=al lpages 16

Batch Operations 

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OData supports executing multiple operations sent in a single HTTP request through the use of Batching The batch requests can be sent as POST with the path containing $batch OData Batch Request is represented as a Multipart MIME v1.0 message

The future of OData  

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Currently the standard is continuing to evolve The Open Data Protocol specification is currently available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP), allowing third parties, including open source projects, to build Data Services for any runtime as well as clients to consume such services. OASIS Technical committee is in the process to standardize OData as an OASIS standard: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odata/

Want to know more? 

Open Data Protocol: http://www.odata.org

Thank you

Contact information: Boris Tsirulnik Software Architect Technology & Innovation Platform SAP Labs Israel Ltd. [email protected]

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