CdsRestDataProvider Module

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the CdsRestDataProvider Module
  • CdsRestDataProvider v2.1
  • CdsRestDataProvider v2.0
  • CdsRestDataProvider v1.0

Introduction to the CdsRestDataProvider Module

The CdsRestDataProvider module provides a dataproviderintro "data provider" API for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Common Data Service REST services. The CdsRestDataProvider class allows for introspecting a Microsoft Common Data Service application instance (such as Dynamics 365, for example), while the ODataEntityDataProvider class supports the dataproviderintro "data provider" record-based API for querying and manipulating entity data in the application.

CDS instances can be introspected with the following format:

• REST operation path: uri_path
  • ex: account
  • results in a ODataEntityDataProvider object where record operations supported on the object can be executed

The following classes are provided by this module for Dynamics 365:

• CdsRestDataProvider
• CdsRestDataProviderFactory
• CdsRestDataProvider::CdsEntityDataProvider "CdsEntityDataProvider"
• CdsRestDataProvider::CdsRestRecordIterator "CdsRestRecordIterator"

The following classes are provided for Business Central:

• BcRestDataProvider
• BcRestDataProviderFactory
• BcCompaniesDataProvider
• BcCompanyDataProvider
• BcTablesDataProvider
• CdsRestDataProvider::BcEntityDataProvider "BcEntityDataProvider"
• CdsRestDataProvider::BcRecordIterator "BcRecordIterator"

CdsRestDataProvider v2.1

• added support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • new data provider classes for Business Central CRUD operations
  • company-scoped entity access
  • full CRUD support (create, read, update, upsert, delete)
• added support for the DataProvider expression framework for OData queries
  • supports logical operators: AND, OR, NOT
  • supports comparison operators: eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge, between, in
  • added OData-specific string operators: contains, startsWith, endsWith
  • added null/notNull comparison operators

CdsRestDataProvider v2.0

• added support for the data provider action catalog API (issue 4808)

CdsRestDataProvider v1.0

• initial release of the module