oData service operations with parameters

Question

How can LS oData expose "service operations"? I am referring to exposing queries with parameters. Currently, I see that it can expose "entities". 

I also see a related thread here - this talks about importing "service operations":

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/LightSwitchDev11Beta/thread/8968afa4-f5c9-4c7a-8b92-93fa62e72d0e/

Answer 1

LightSwitch does expose queries defined on the server.  They will show in the form [baseUrl]/[datasourceName].svc/[queryName]()?[parameterName]=[parameterValue].  So for a query named Query1 that takes a string parameter named FirstName the url would be something like http://myserver/myLSApp/ApplicationData.svc/Query1()?FirstName='Elizabeth' on a published application.  When F5'ing the url would be something like 'http://localhost:12345/ApplicationData.svc/Query1()?FirstName='Elizabeth'.

Hope that helps,

Elizabeth Maher

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