2 Anatomy of an SData URL

SData uses URLs to address the resources, resource collections, schemas and service operations that are exposed by a service.

This section gives an overview of the SData URL syntax. Its subsections describe the URLs for various resources that are exposed by an SData service:

• Resource collection

• Single resource

• Resource property

• Service operation

• Named query

• Resource template

• Schema definition

• System information

• Intermediate URLs

• Miscellaneous URLs

The following subsections describe features that apply to several URL types:

• Query parameters

• Query language to filter resource collections

• Naming conventions

• Resource versioning

• Extensibility

The last subsection describes how non ASCII characters should be encoded in internationalized URLs.