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Type: Bug
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Status: Closed
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Priority: Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: V4.0_WD01
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Fix Version/s: V4.0_WD01
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Component/s: ATOM Format
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Labels:None
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Environment:
[Proposed]
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Proposal:
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Resolution:
Currently, the example in Section 10 of [ATOM] implies that when selecting a single property (i.e., ~Customers('ALFKI')/FirstName), the payload would contain the name of the property in the d: namespace:
<Title xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">CEO<Title>
This implies that what is represented is a property with a given name, which is not the case; what should be represented is the value of the property, which is independent of the property itself (and can thus be used, for example, in passing as a parameter to an action). This is also inconsistent with how a function that returns a single property is represented, and is inconsistent with the JSON format (which represents this as a name/value pair with the name "value").
We should specify that an individual property is serialized in ATOM as an element named "value" in the odata metadata namespace.