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Net.Http.WebApi.OData is a C# library which parses an OData query uri into an object model which can be used to query custom data sources which are not IQueryable. It was extracted from the MicroLite.Extensions.WebApi library into a separate project so that it could be easily used by other projects.

Getting the OData Query Options

To use it in your own Web API, firstly install the nuget package Install-Package Net.Http.WebApi.OData and then in your controller, define a Get method which accepts a single parameter of ODataQueryOptions:

public IEnumerable<MyClass> Get(ODataQueryOptions queryOptions)
{
    // Implement query logic.
}

Validating the OData Query Options

You can use the ODataValidationSettings and the Validate extension method to validate the parameters:

public IEnumerable<MyClass> Get(ODataQueryOptions queryOptions)
{
    var validationSettings = new ODataValidationSettings
    {
        AllowedArithmeticOperators = AllowedArithmeticOperators.All,
        AllowedFunctions = AllowedFunctions.AllFunctions,
        AllowedLogicalOperators = AllowedLogicalOperators.All,
        AllowedQueryOptions = AllowedQueryOptions.Filter
            | AllowedQueryOptions.Format
            | AllowedQueryOptions.InlineCount
            | AllowedQueryOptions.OrderBy
            | AllowedQueryOptions.Select
            | AllowedQueryOptions.Skip
            | AllowedQueryOptions.Top,
        MaxTop = 50      
    };

    queryOptions.Validate(validationSettings);

    // Implement query logic.
}

Validate will throw an ODataException if the ODataQueryOptions contain any values which the service does not allow based upon the specified validation settings.

Using the OData Query Options

The ODataQueryOptions contains properties which can be interrogated to understand the specified query.

Consider the following OData query:

http://localhost/api/Customers?$select=FirstName,LastName,DateOfBirth&$orderby=LastName desc,FirstName

The ODataQueryOptions.Select would be as follows:

queryOptions.Select.RawValue;         // "$select=FirstName,LastName,DateOfBirth"
queryOptions.Select.Properties.Count; // 3
queryOptions.Select.Properties[0];    // "FirstName"
queryOptions.Select.Properties[1];    // "LastName"
queryOptions.Select.Properties[2];    // "DateOfBirth"

The ODataQueryOptions.OrderBy would be as follows:

queryOptions.OrderBy.RawValue;                // "$orderby=LastName desc,FirstName"
queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties.Count;        // 2

queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[0].Direction; // OrderByDirection.Descending
queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[0].Name;      // LastName
queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[0].RawValue;  // "LastName desc"

queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[1].Direction; // OrderByDirection.Ascending
queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[1].Name;      // FirstName
queryOptions.OrderBy.Properties[1].RawValue;  // "FirstName"

Supported OData Query Options

Net.Http.WebApi.OData is currently built to support OData 3.0, the OData Query Options specify the following query options and Net.Http.WebApi.OData currently supports them if ticked:

$filter

Logical Operators

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
eq	implemented	implemented
ne	implemented	implemented
gt	implemented	implemented
ge	implemented	implemented
lt	implemented	implemented
le	implemented	implemented
and	implemented	implemented
or	implemented	implemented
not	implemented	implemented

Arithmetic Operators

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
add	implemented	implemented
sub	implemented	implemented
mul	implemented	implemented
div	implemented	implemented
mod	implemented	implemented

Grouping Operators

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
() Precedence Grouping	implemented	implemented

String Functions

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
substringof	implemented	not in spec (use contains)
endswith	implemented	implemented
startswith	implemented	implemented
length	implemented	implemented
indexof	implemented	implemented
replace	implemented	implemented
substring	implemented	implemented
tolower	implemented	implemented
toupper	implemented	implemented
trim	implemented	implemented
concat	implemented	implemented
contains	not in spec (use substringof)	implemented

Date Functions

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
day	implemented	implemented
hour	implemented	implemented
minute	implemented	implemented
month	implemented	implemented
second	implemented	implemented
year	implemented	implemented
now	not in spec	implemented
mindatetime	not in spec	implemented
maxdatetime	not in spec	implemented
fractionalseconds	not in spec	implemented

Math Functions

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
round	implemented	implemented
floor	implemented	implemented
ceiling	implemented	implemented

Type Functions

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
IsOf	implemented	implemented
Cast	implemented	implemented

$expand

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$expand=Orders	implemented	implemented

$select

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
wildcard $select=*	implemented	implemented
properties $select=Name, DateOfBirth	implemented	implemented
nested properties $select=Address.Postcode	not implemented	not implemented

$orderby

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
asc $orderby=Name asc	implemented	implemented
desc $orderby=Name desc	implemented	implemented

$top

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$top=5	implemented	implemented

$skip

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$skip=10	implemented	implemented

$count

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$count=true	not in spec (use $inlinecount=allpages)	implemented
$count=false	not in spec (use $inlinecount=none)	implemented

$inlinecount

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$inlinecount=allpages	implemented	not in spec (replaced by $count=true)
$inlinecount=none	implemented	not in spec (replaced by $count=false)

$format

Operator	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
$format=atom	implemented	implemented
$format=json	implemented	implemented
$format=xml	implemented	implemented
$format=... where ... is application/?	implemented	implemented

$links

URI Path	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
/$links/	not implemented	not implemented

$count

URI Path	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 3.4.x	Net.Http.WebApi.OData 4.x
/$count	not implemented	not implemented