[OLINGO-1035] Support creating entities with inline URIs to existing entities

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: V2 2.0.7
• Fix Version/s: V2 2.0.9
• Component/s: odata2-annotation
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Christian Amend
• Reporter: Michael Strasser
• Created: 18/Oct/16 00:41
• Updated: 26/Jan/17 10:17
• Resolved: 26/Jan/17 10:17

Description

Adding support for posting entities with URI references to other entities.

For example, given a Building posted to /Test.svc/Buildings with:

{
  "Id": "B01",
  "Name": "Building 1"
}

it is possible to add a Room to /Test.svc/Rooms with:

{
  "Id": "R01-01",
  "Name": "Room 01",
  "Building": {
    "__metadata": {
      "uri": "Buildings('B01')"
    }
  }
}

and have the new entity reference the existing one correctly.