Running the OData Service

1. Click Start in the toolbar to run your Web Application.
2. You will get a forbidden message, because right now we have no root resource for IIS to display. Let's navigate to our Todos resource entity set using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Internet Explorer (if JSON result) will automatically ask you to download the response. Just makes it slightly more inconvenient.

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos

1. (Optional) Alternatively, you can use an extension like Postman for Chrome (recommended), or REST client for Firefox.

Try several OData calls:

Single result:

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos(1)

Following a Foreign Key reference:

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos(1)/UserCompletedBy

Filtering:

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos?$filter= Completed eq false

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos?$filter= Finished eq false

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos?$filter= Finished eq true

Getting entity set count:

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos/$count

Requesting output content type:

http://localhost:your-port-number/odata/Todos?$format=json

You'll notice $count and $format are not supported. We'll check on those in the next section.

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