Is $expand flat?

Question

Hi all;

I'm looking at http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Employees?$expand=Territories,Orders and it returns a series of entries, each with 2 feeds in it (Territories and Orders). Can a uri be requested where inside those feeds there will be sub-feeds for additional entries?

Or is it that you will have the base entry and it will have 0 ... N feeds, but all feeds are in that base entry?

thanks - dave

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Answer 1

Hi,

Expansions are not flat (or not always). You can expand deeper. For example http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Employees?$expand=Territories,Orders,Orders/Order_Details&$top=1

Thanks,

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Vitek Karas [MSFT]

Answer 2

Ok, that's what we're coding for.

Is there a sample OData service out there that will page in the middle of $expand feeds? We need to test this code we're writing.

??? - thanks - dave

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Answer 3

Try http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Genres?$top=2&$expand=Titles&$select=Titles/Name (but it's big, so beware !!! :-))

Thanks,

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Vitek Karas [MSFT]