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  1. OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
  2. ODATA-730

Lack of ordering constraints on delta responses may require clients to buffer (or persist) entire response to process it correctly

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Status: New
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Affects Version/s: V4.0_OS
    • Fix Version/s: V4.02
    • Component/s: JSON Format
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      Add appropriate ordering constraints for delta responses to avoid situations where clients may need to buffer or persist changes in order to be able to correct process the delta response (including but not limited to the maintenance of referential integrity in the client's view of the data).

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      Add appropriate ordering constraints for delta responses to avoid situations where clients may need to buffer or persist changes in order to be able to correct process the delta response (including but not limited to the maintenance of referential integrity in the client's view of the data).

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      Firstly, a client may receive an "added link" before receiving one or both of the entities it refers to. In order to be able to maintain referential integrity (or surrogate foreign keys) the client might need to buffer (or persist) the "added links" until it has received the missing entities.

      Secondly, a client may receive a "deleted entity" before receiving a "deleted link" to remove the entity from a relationship. If the navigation property concerned was not marked in CSDL with <OnDelete Action="Cascade" />, then the client may not be able to avoid buffering/persisting the "deleted entity" notification while awaiting possible later "deleted link" notifications.

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            • Assignee:
              handl Ralf Handl
              Reporter:
              evan.ireland.2 Evan Ireland
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