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OData JSON & ATOM Formats

I have this question on OData based services. As a consumer of OData Service, can I assume that any OData compliant data service would expose its data in ATOM and JSON format.

Is it possible that there is a OData service that expose its feeds in ATOM but not in JSON format?

In my application as a consumer of OData (OData CLient) we are always fetching the data in JSON format. This would fail when the OData Service only supports ATOM.

Solution

  • The V3 documentation is unambiguous:

    • OData Services MUST support the ATOM encoding.
    • OData services SHOULD support a JSON encoding.