I am repeating a question that someone else asked in December 2011:
https://community.progress.com/community_groups/f/27/t/141
"The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a 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.
Will Progress, or does Progress have an oData interface."
Now that OpenEdge 11.2 has this REST adapter, are there any plans to add OData support to it? Or is it already possible to call AppServer REST services using OData clients?
AFAIK, Progress Software is a member of OData Technical Committee (http://www.odata.org/).
Hi Marko,
We explored using the OData protocol and decided that it was a bit overkill for our REST support. It is a complicated protocol and we decided to be OData compliant rather than adopt the entire protocol.
Do you have an instance where a client cannot call an OE REST Service?
Thanks
-Shelley
Hi Shelley, thanks for your answer. I don't have any specific customer case for OData right now, but it seems to be gaining popularity and support, especially from Microsoft (Excel, SharePoint, LightSwitch etc.). To be able to use OData with OE back-end, I would have to create some kind of middle-tier to publish OE REST Services as OData services, right?
That is correct.
-Shelley