odata4 0.7.0

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  14. data/lib/odata4.rb +37 -0
  15. data/lib/odata4/complex_type.rb +76 -0
  16. data/lib/odata4/complex_type/property.rb +114 -0
  17. data/lib/odata4/entity.rb +319 -0
  18. data/lib/odata4/entity_set.rb +162 -0
  19. data/lib/odata4/enum_type.rb +95 -0
  20. data/lib/odata4/enum_type/property.rb +62 -0
  21. data/lib/odata4/navigation_property.rb +29 -0
  22. data/lib/odata4/navigation_property/proxy.rb +76 -0
  23. data/lib/odata4/properties.rb +25 -0
  24. data/lib/odata4/properties/binary.rb +50 -0
  25. data/lib/odata4/properties/boolean.rb +37 -0
  26. data/lib/odata4/properties/date.rb +27 -0
  27. data/lib/odata4/properties/date_time.rb +83 -0
  28. data/lib/odata4/properties/date_time_offset.rb +17 -0
  29. data/lib/odata4/properties/decimal.rb +50 -0
  30. data/lib/odata4/properties/float.rb +67 -0
  31. data/lib/odata4/properties/geography.rb +13 -0
  32. data/lib/odata4/properties/geography/base.rb +162 -0
  33. data/lib/odata4/properties/geography/line_string.rb +33 -0
  34. data/lib/odata4/properties/geography/point.rb +31 -0
  35. data/lib/odata4/properties/geography/polygon.rb +38 -0
  36. data/lib/odata4/properties/guid.rb +17 -0
  37. data/lib/odata4/properties/integer.rb +107 -0
  38. data/lib/odata4/properties/number.rb +14 -0
  39. data/lib/odata4/properties/string.rb +72 -0
  40. data/lib/odata4/properties/time.rb +40 -0
  41. data/lib/odata4/properties/time_of_day.rb +27 -0
  42. data/lib/odata4/property.rb +118 -0
  43. data/lib/odata4/property_registry.rb +41 -0
  44. data/lib/odata4/query.rb +231 -0
  45. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria.rb +92 -0
  46. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria/comparison_operators.rb +49 -0
  47. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria/date_functions.rb +61 -0
  48. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria/geography_functions.rb +21 -0
  49. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria/lambda_operators.rb +27 -0
  50. data/lib/odata4/query/criteria/string_functions.rb +40 -0
  51. data/lib/odata4/query/in_batches.rb +58 -0
  52. data/lib/odata4/query/result.rb +84 -0
  53. data/lib/odata4/query/result/atom.rb +41 -0
  54. data/lib/odata4/query/result/json.rb +42 -0
  55. data/lib/odata4/railtie.rb +19 -0
  56. data/lib/odata4/service.rb +344 -0
  57. data/lib/odata4/service_registry.rb +52 -0
  58. data/lib/odata4/version.rb +3 -0
  59. data/odata4.gemspec +34 -0
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  70. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/entity_set_specs/bad_entry.yml +183 -0
  71. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/entity_set_specs/existing_entry.yml +256 -0
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  77. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/service_registry_specs.yml +129 -0
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  80. data/spec/odata4/complex_type_spec.rb +116 -0
  81. data/spec/odata4/entity/shared_examples.rb +82 -0
  82. data/spec/odata4/entity_set_spec.rb +168 -0
  83. data/spec/odata4/entity_spec.rb +151 -0
  84. data/spec/odata4/enum_type_spec.rb +134 -0
  85. data/spec/odata4/navigation_property/proxy_spec.rb +44 -0
  86. data/spec/odata4/navigation_property_spec.rb +55 -0
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  88. data/spec/odata4/properties/boolean_spec.rb +72 -0
  89. data/spec/odata4/properties/date_spec.rb +23 -0
  90. data/spec/odata4/properties/date_time_offset_spec.rb +30 -0
  91. data/spec/odata4/properties/date_time_spec.rb +23 -0
  92. data/spec/odata4/properties/decimal_spec.rb +24 -0
  93. data/spec/odata4/properties/float_spec.rb +45 -0
  94. data/spec/odata4/properties/geography/line_string_spec.rb +33 -0
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  96. data/spec/odata4/properties/geography/polygon_spec.rb +55 -0
  97. data/spec/odata4/properties/geography/shared_examples.rb +72 -0
  98. data/spec/odata4/properties/guid_spec.rb +17 -0
  99. data/spec/odata4/properties/integer_spec.rb +58 -0
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  101. data/spec/odata4/properties/time_of_day_spec.rb +23 -0
  102. data/spec/odata4/properties/time_spec.rb +15 -0
  103. data/spec/odata4/property_registry_spec.rb +16 -0
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  106. data/spec/odata4/query/result_spec.rb +53 -0
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+ # CHANGELOG
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+ ## 0.7.0
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+ Major rewrite
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+ * Added support for OData 4.0
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+ * Dropped support for OData 3.0
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+ ## 0.6.18
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+ * Minor internal fixes to OData::Query::Criteria.
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+ ## 0.6.17
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+ * Added more graceful handling of manually passed advanced queries to
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+ OData::Query::Criteria.
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+ ## 0.6.16
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+ * Implemented OData::Query#empty? and fixed OData::Query#count.
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+ ## 0.6.15
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+ * Fixed minor bug in last release.
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+ ## 0.6.14
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+ * Changed implementation of OData::Association::Proxy#[] to properly handle
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+ empty associations.
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+ ## 0.6.13
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+ * Minor bug fix in OData::Query::Result#each implementation.
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+ ## 0.6.12
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+ * Minor bug fix in OData::Query::Result#each implementation.
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+ ## 0.6.11
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+ * Added logic to allow OData::Query::Result#each to handle paginated results.
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+ ## 0.6.10
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+ * Changed how associations behave with mulitiplicity of one.
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+ ## 0.6.9
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+ * Changed how OData::Entity#from_xml functions to better work with feed results.
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+ ## 0.6.8
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+ * Added empty checking when checking for a nil value.
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+ ## 0.6.7
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+ * Changed how commit failures are handled to use logging instead of raising an
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+ * Added errors array to OData::Entity.
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+ ## 0.6.6
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+ * Updated OData::EntitySet#setup_entity_post_request to properly format primary
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+ ## 0.6.5
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+ * Fixed problem in OData::ComplexType#to_xml implementation.
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+ ## 0.6.4
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+ * Added implementation of OData::ComplexType#type.
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+ ## 0.6.3
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+ ## 0.6.1
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+ * Made a minor change to internals of OData::Query::Criteria.
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+ ## 0.6.0
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+ * Added ability to handle associations in a reasonable way.
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+ ## 0.5.1-8
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+ * Tons of changes throughout the code base
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+ ## 0.5.0
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+ * Stopped using namespace from OData service as unique identifier in favor of
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+ ## 0.4.0
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+ * Added OData::Query#execute to run query and return a result.
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+ * Added OData::Query::Result to handle enumeration of query results.
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+ ## 0.3.2
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+ * Refactored internals of the query interface.
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+ ## 0.3.1
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+ * Resolved issues causing failure on Ruby 1.9 and JRuby.
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+ ## 0.3.0
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+ ## 0.2.0
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+ * Added query interface for [System Query Options](http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-version-3-0/odata-version-3-0-core-protocol#queryingcollections)
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+ * Refactored internal uses of System Query Options
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+ ## 0.1.0
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+ Copyright (c) 2018 Christoph Wagner <christoph@wrstudios.com>
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+ 2014 James Thompson <james@plainprograms.com>
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+ MIT License
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+ # OData4
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+ The OData4 gem provides a simple wrapper around the OData Version 4.0 API protocol.
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+ It has the ability to automatically inspect compliant APIs and expose the relevant Ruby objects dynamically.
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+ It also provides a set of code generation tools for quickly bootstrapping more custom service libraries.
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+ **This gem supports [OData Version 4.0](http://www.odata.org/documentation/). Support for older versions is not a goal.**
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+ If you need a gem to integration with OData Version 3, you can use James Thompson's [original OData gem][ruby-odata], upon which this gem is based.
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+ [![Build Status](https://app.codeship.com/projects/da1eb540-ce3f-0135-2ddc-161d5c3cc5fd/status?branch=master)](https://app.codeship.com/projects/262148)
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+ [![Maintainability](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/f151944dc05b2c7268e5/maintainability)](https://codeclimate.com/github/wrstudios/odata4/maintainability)
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+ [![Documentation](http://inch-ci.org/github/wrstudios/odata4.png?branch=master)](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/wrstudios/odata4/master)
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+ ## Installation
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+ ## Usage
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+ ### Services & the Service Registry
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+ ```
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+ ### Entity Sets
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+ When it comes to reading data from an OData4 service the most typical way will be via `OData4::EntitySet` instances.
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+ Under normal circumstances you should never need to worry about an `OData4::EntitySet` directly.
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+ For example, to get an `OData4::EntitySet` for the products in the ODataDemo service simply access the entity set through the service like this:
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+ ```ruby
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+ service = OData4::Service.open('http://services.odata.org/V4/OData/OData.service')
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+ products = service['ProductsSet'] # => OData4::EntitySet
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+ ```
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+ `OData4::EntitySet` instances implement the `Enumerable` module, meaning you can work with them very naturally, like this:
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+ ```ruby
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+ products.each do |entity|
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+ entity # => OData4::Entity for type Product
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ You can get a list of all your entity sets like this:
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+ ```ruby
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+ service.entity_sets
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+ ```
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+ #### Count
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+ Some versions of Microsoft CRM do not support count.
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+ ```ruby
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+ products.count
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+ ```
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+ #### Collections
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+ You can you the following methods to grab a collection of Entities:
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+ ```ruby
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+ ...
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+ end
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+ ```
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+ The first entity object returns a single entity object.
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+ ```ruby
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+ ```
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+ `first(x)` returns an array of entity objects.
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+ ```ruby
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+ ```
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+ #### Find a certain Entity
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+ ```ruby
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+ ```
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+ With certain navigation properties expanded (i.e. eagerly loaded):
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+ # Eagerly load a single navigation property
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+ ```
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+ ### Entities
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+ `OData4::Entity` instances represent individual entities, or records, in a given service.
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+ They are returned primarily through interaction with instances of `OData4::EntitySet`.
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+ You can access individual properties on an `OData4::Entity` like so:
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+ ```ruby
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+ product = products.first # => OData4::Entity
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+ product['Price'] # => 2.5 (Float)
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+ ```
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+ Individual properties on an `OData4::Entity` are automatically typecast by the gem, so you don't have to worry about too much when working with entities.
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+ The way this is implemented internally guarantees that an `OData4::Entity` is always ready to save back to the service or `OData4::EntitySet`, which you do like so:
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+ ```
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+ You can get a list of all your entities like this:
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+ ```
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+ #### Entity Properties
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+ Reading, parsing and instantiating all properties of an entity can add up to a significant amount of time, particularly for those entities with a large number of properties.
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+ To speed this process up all properties are lazy loaded.
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+ Which means it will store the name of the property, but will not parse and instantiate the property until you want to use it.
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+ You can find all the property names of your entity with
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ This will parse and instantiate the property if it hasn't done so yet.
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+ ### Queries
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+ `OData4::Query` instances form the base for finding specific entities within an `OData4::EntitySet`.
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+ A query object exposes a number of capabilities based on
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+ the [System Query Options](http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata03/os/complete/part1-protocol/odata-v4.0-errata03-os-part1-protocol-complete.html#_Toc453752288) provided for in the OData V4.0 specification.
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+ Below is just a partial example of what is possible:
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+ results.each {|product| puts product['Name']}
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+ ```
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+ The process of querying is kept purposely verbose to allow for lazy behavior to be implemented at higher layers.
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+ Internally, `OData4::Query` relies on the `OData4::Query::Criteria` for the way the `where` method works.
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+ You should refer to the published RubyDocs for full details on the various capabilities:
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+ * [OData4::Query](http://rubydoc.info/github/wrstudios/odata4/master/OData4/Query)
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+ * [OData4::Query::Criteria](http://rubydoc.info/github/wrstudios/odata4/master/OData4/Query/Criteria)
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+ ## Contributing
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+ 1. Fork it (`https://github.com/[my-github-username]/odata/fork`)
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+ 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
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+ 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
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+ 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
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+ 5. Create a new Pull Request
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+ ## Credits
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+ Many thanks go to [James Thompson][@plainprogrammer], who wrote the [original OData (Version 3.0) gem][ruby-odata].
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+ [@plainprogrammer]: https://github.com/plainprogrammer
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+ [ruby-odata]: https://github.com/ruby-odata/odata
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+ Also, I would like to thank [W+R Studios][wrstudios] for generously allowing me to work on Open Source software like this. If you want to work on interesting challenges with an awesome team, check out our [open positions][wrcareers].
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+ [wrstudios]: http://wrstudios.com/
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+ [wrcareers]: http://wrstudios.com/careers