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Using OData Data Sources in SharePoint 2013 Solutions

Using OData Data Sources in SharePoint 2013 Solutions. Hunter Pankey @ thehunterpankey http://hunterpankey.com. What is OData?. Protocol for interacting with RESTful services Microsoft Open Specifications Promise Operates over HTTP Returns ATOM or JSON. What are RESTful services?.

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Using OData Data Sources in SharePoint 2013 Solutions

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  1. Using OData Data Sources in SharePoint 2013 Solutions Hunter Pankey @thehunterpankey http://hunterpankey.com

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

  3. 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

  4. SOAP vs. REST

  5. REST URL Examples • http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles and • http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles?$filter=Name%20eq%20'Bad%20News%20Bears'

  6. OData Principles • Metadata • Data • Querying • Editing • Operations • Vocabularies

  7. Data Model • Entities • Entity sets • Relationships

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

  9. Data model • Structural elements • Row types • Resources • Annotations/Vocabularies

  10. Service Model • Metadata document • Service document

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

  12. OData Players

  13. BCS Overview • Similarities to ORMs • External Content Types • Connectors • SharePoint Interface

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

  15. BCS Stereotypes

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

  17. Remote Event Receivers • New in SharePoint 2013 • Added BDC stereotypes • New Functionality

  18. Demo Time!!!

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