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OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. OData helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc. OData also provides guidance for tracking changes, defining functions/actions for reusable procedures, and sending asynchronous/batch requests.

OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs, enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools.

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Visual Studio Code for OData

OData for Visual Studio Code is a Visual Studio Code extension that adds rich support for the OData query language

XOData

XOData is a generic online OData API/Service visualizer and explorer. It assists in rapid prototyping, verification, testing, and documentation of OData APIs. With XOData Chrome App it's also possible to explore OData Services deployed locally or on private networks.

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There are several of libraries to facilitate building and consuming OData service. Restier is the main library for .NET framework. Apache Olingo is for Java platform to build OData service.

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