Setting Your Data Free with OData

Bruce JohnsonPartner, ObjectSharp Consulting

bjohnson@objectsharp.comTwitter: LACanuck

What’s the Point

Presentation + Behavior +

DataWeb Server

Web Page

New Technologies

AJAXRIA

Mashups

Web Server = Presentation +

Behavior

Data

What should the data look like

Web friendly◦Just Plain HTTP

Uniform patternsFocus should be on the data

◦Formatting the data should left up to the clientUse high-level abstractions

Welcome the Open Data Protocol

Uniform way of representing structured data◦Atom, JSON formats

Uniform URL conventions◦Navigation, filtering, sorting, paging, etc.

Uniform operations◦GET, POST, PUT, DELETE always mean the

same◦Addressability

Demo

Playing around with OData

So where are the sources?

People are starting to create data feeds◦Netflix◦Sharepoint 2010

Lists => Collections◦City of Vancouver

Parking◦Codename: Dallas

And who can consume it?

Goal: self-service business intelligence◦Let people find and use their own data

Excel PowerPivot handles OData nativelyEvery report in SQL Reporting Services (in

2008 R2) are now OData feeds◦Including existing reports

But what about MY data

API(data + logic)

Data(DB, File, Cloud, …)

OData API(data + logic) Your Website

Data(DB, File, Cloud, …)

Open Data Protocol

OData Consumers

Demo

Creating an OData Feed

But what about MY data

Open Data Protocol

OData Producer

Reports

Format

+ +

Dashboard

Query &[Uri]

?

Other features?

Open Data Protocol

OData Producer

Reports

Format

+ +

Dashboard

Query &[Uri]

Forms over Data

R/W

+?

What should you do next?

Expose your data with ODataTeach data consumers about ODataTo get started, check out http://odata.org

Thanks to our contributors