Add subsection "Requesting Related Entities" to section 10.2 describing the behavior when following navigation properties:
- following a to-many relationship will always result in a feed document. The feed is empty if no entities are actually related
- following a to-one relationship will always result in an entity document
- following a to-zero-or-one relationship will result in an entity document if something is related, and a 204 No Content response if nothing is related
Extend subsection 10.2.4 Requesting $links between Entities:
If the navigation property has cardinality zero-or-one and no entity is associated, the service SHOULD return 404 Not Found.
For the case of a zero-to-one relation that currently points to nothing, explain the subtle difference between accessing the related entity itself (e.g. Employees(123)/Manager) and accessing the link to the related entity (e.g. Employees(123)/$links/Manager:
- in the first case the related manager resource exists logically and is empty, thus 204 No Content.
- in the second case no link exists between Employees(123) and any Manager, thus 404 Not Found.
Accepted: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/47355/latest/odata_meeting-14_on-20121101-minutes.html