Method Reference for OData Version 2

The Hybrid Data Pipeline OData service interface supports GET, POST, POST/MERGE and POST/DELETE HTTP methods. Each operation acts on the resource specified in the URL.

The POST request to create or update an entity should include a Content-Type header specifying the format of the request payload. The Hybrid Data Pipeline OData API recognizes the following content types:

If the Content-Type header is not supplied, Hybrid Data Pipeline interprets the body as the Atom Pub format encoded using the character set.ISO-8859-1 character set.

Supported OData API Operations

The following table shows the operations that can be performed and their associated URLs. Refer to the specified section for detailed descriptions for these operations. Query the data source name to get a list of the valid entities.

In this table, <myserver> is the DSN name or the IP address of the machine where Hybrid Data Pipeline is installed.

Purpose	Request	URL
Fetch Data from an OData Service	GET	https://<myserver>:<port>/api/odata/ <data-source-name><entity-plural-name>
Create an Entity	POST	https://<myserver>:<port>/api/odata/ <data-source-name><entity-plural-name>
Update an Entity	POST X-HTTP-Method:MERGE	https://<myserver>:<port>/api/odata/ <data-source-name><entity-plural-name>('primary-key')
Delete an Entity	DELETE Or POST X-HTTP-Method:DELETE	https://<myserver>:<port>/api/odata/ <data-source-name><entity-plural-name>('primary-key')