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  1. OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
  2. ODATA-1364

Define ExpandOptions for nav property in $select

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Status: New
    • Priority: Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_OS
    • Fix Version/s: V5.0
    • Component/s: Protocol, URL Conventions
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      Support the full set of $expand options on navigation properties within $select. For example:

      GET customers?$select=firstName, orders($select=orderId, amount)

      { "firstName": "Victor", "orders@odata.navigationLink": "customers('victorb')/orders?$select=orderId, amount" }

      Note that this does not affect the contextUrl.

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      Support the full set of $expand options on navigation properties within $select. For example: GET customers?$select=firstName, orders($select=orderId, amount) { "firstName": "Victor", "orders@odata.navigationLink": "customers('victorb')/orders?$select=orderId, amount"  } Note that this does not affect the contextUrl.

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      The defined semantics for a navigation property in $select is to include the navigation link in the response body. However, that navigation link may be opaque, making it difficult for a generic hypermedia-driven client to append options such as nested selects/expands. There should be a way to specify that the response should include a navigation link that selects a subset of rows, and properties, in a certain order, with certain nested properties expanded, etc. In short, everything that you could specify if you $expanded the navigation property inline.

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              Reporter:
              mikep Michael Pizzo
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