Is there a .NET class wrapper for the OData protocol Uri?

I know you said you looked at the API, but have you looked at the actual code. The . Net Client Library has been opened sourced odata.codeplex.com so if you can't find one out there, you can use their code as a starting point (and hopefully contribute it back to the community) Essentially, what you need is a LINQ to OData Uri provider.

If I remember correctly, one of the nick-names for Astoria was LINQ to REST. What you have to do is on the client side, convert a LINQ expression tree to the OData URI format, and on the server, convert the URI back to a LINQ Expression tree. Creating custom LINQ providers isn't the easiest thing to do, but Matt Warren has a great (long) series on building IQueryable Providers http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattwar/archive/2008/11/18/linq-links.aspx.

I know you said you looked at the API, but have you looked at the actual code. The . Net Client Library has been opened sourced, odata.codeplex.com/ so if you can't find one out there, you can use their code as a starting point (and hopefully contribute it back to the community).

Essentially, what you need is a LINQ to OData Uri provider. If I remember correctly, one of the nick-names for Astoria was LINQ to REST. What you have to do is on the client side, convert a LINQ expression tree to the OData URI format, and on the server, convert the URI back to a LINQ Expression tree.

Creating custom LINQ providers isn't the easiest thing to do, but Matt Warren has a great (long) series on building IQueryable Providers http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattwar/archive/2008/11/18/linq-links.aspx.

That's pertty much exactly what I want to do. I'll look at this. – Simon Gillbee Sep 2 '10 at 16:12.

Sure, read this blog post as a starter: tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-22.html.

So, unless I'm missing something, this articles discusses the need for MS to open-source the data services server code (the stuff I need! ). I agree with the sentiment, but it doesn't help me because MS hasn't OS'd the server code and so I can't get at their uri parser (I guess I could try reflector, but that's likely to be a lot of trouble).

– Simon Gillbee Sep 1 '10 at 22:10 It is: odata.codeplex. Com – Pierre Sep 2 '10 at 5:21 Thanks. I'll look at the client code.It was my impression that a uri parser was going to be a server-side component, not a client side component, but I could be wrong.

– Simon Gillbee Sep 2 '10 at 16:14.

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