Windows Management Framework V5 Preview

Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by shanselman on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:02AM (#7531793)

OData, to me, makes sense for data that has a dynamic schematic and/or a client that wants to explore or wander the data in the way an intranet or analyst does. Like Excel folks might. Not the way a phone app or desktop app might. Great for a certain kind of app.

For narrower apps, I'd make a web api but consider using just the OData query string formats (filter, sort) for flexibility.

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Re:Windows Management Framework V5 Preview by NicoJuicy on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:43AM (#7532111)

In short:

Internal API = OData (= data layer)

External API = WebAPI with OData methods (=service layer, which brings the endpoint data to 3rd parties)

And because it's an internal API, it's a reason why you don't see it a lot in public API's (SAP uses it intensively though)

Thanks :)

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