/$query shall allow Content-Type: application/json

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major
    • V4.02
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_OS
    • Component/s: URL Conventions
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      Note: this would allow providing "literal" values to non-binding function parameters of type Edm.Stream introduced by ODATA-1481 because there's now a natural way to provide the content-type in addition to the stream data:

      {
  "Thumbnail@mediaContentType": "image/jpeg",
  "Thumbnail": "...base64url encoded value...",
}
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      See description Note: this would allow providing "literal" values to non-binding function parameters of type Edm.Stream introduced by ODATA-1481 because there's now a natural way to provide the content-type in addition to the stream data: { "Thumbnail@mediaContentType" : "image/jpeg" , "Thumbnail" : "...base64url encoded value..." , }

      JSON as content type should also be supported by /$query:

      POST ~/$query
Content-Type: application/json

{"$filter": "a eq 1",
 "$select": "b"}

      This is especially useful for complex function parameters, that would then be represented as if they were action parameters:

      POST ~/Countries('DE')/GetPostcodes
Content-Type: application/json

{"$filter": "ValidityStart gt 2020-01-01",
 "City": "Heidelberg",
 "Address": {"Street": "Hauptstraße", "Number": "1"}}

      Note that

      • the name of the bound function in the URL is without parentheses (because the parameters are in the body)
      • all parameter values in the JSON payload must be literals (whereas in the URL they could be aliases that evaluate to arbitrary expressions)
      • the /$query segment in the URL is optional and has been omitted here. (There is no risk of misinterpreting a function invocation URL.)

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            heiko.theissen
            Reporter:
            heiko.theissen
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