The document outlines the OData standard, which facilitates the creation and sharing of queryable REST APIs, initiated by Microsoft and ratified in 2014. It introduces a hackathon challenge aimed at developing skills for voice assistants that interact with multiple CRM solutions using OData APIs. Participants are encouraged to utilize Progress DataDirect Cloud to generate OData feeds for their projects.

1. OData Hackathon
Challenge at APIWorld
+ Integrate 2016
Sponsored by Progress DataDirect
Sumit Sarkar, Chief Data Evangelist
Saikrishna Teja Bobba, Developer Evangelist

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AGENDA
OVERVIEW OF ODATA OASIS STANDARD
URL CONVENTIONS
ADOPTERS IN ANALYTICS AND
SUPPORTING ARCHITECTURES
ODATA @ PROGRESS

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OVERVIEW OF ODATA OASIS
STANDARD

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An open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of
queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way.
• Started by Microsoft in 2007
• Ratified as an OASIS standard on February, 2014
Progress was first member of OData Technical Committee following Microsoft
What is OData?

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REST is great, But..
 It’s a style – not a standard
 Metadata support?
 Limited querying capabilities

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Why OData?
 Operations built on REST principles
 Uniform URL conventions
 Surfaces metadata by default
 Interoperability

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http://services.odata.org/OData/OData.svc
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service root URI
http://services.odata.org/OData/OData.svc/Category(1)/Products?$top=2&$orderby=name
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service root URI resource path query options
URL Conventions

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URL Query Conventions
$SELECT /Products?$select=*,Category/Name
/Suppliers?$filter=Address/City eq 'Redmond’
/Products?$orderby=ReleaseDate asc, Rating desc
/Products?$select=*,Category/Name&$expand=Categor
y
$FILTER
$ORDERBY
$EXPAND
/Products?$top=5&$skip=2$TOP $SKIP

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OData Libs - http://www.odata.org/libraries/
.NET, Java, Javascript, C++
OData4j
Apache Olingo
ODataJS
Node-odata
ODataCpp
RESTier
WCF Data Services
Visual Studio Lightswitch
ODataPy

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ADOPTERS: POWER IN NUMBERS

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Broad Adoption

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ODATA @ PROGRESS

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Progress DataDirect Cloud
OData

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Project Mustang Beta

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Other areas of Progress adopting OData

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CHALLENGE

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Integrate 2016 Hackathon Challenge [http://bit.ly/hackodata]
Build a skill set for voice assistant services like Amazon Echo(Alexa) or
Microsoft Cortana making the best use of OData API.
Challenge Rules
You have to build the skill that can connect to atleast two CRM solutions and the questions
that you ask should be interoperable between the CRM Solutions. Example CRM Solutions
that you can work on are Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Sugar CRM.
You have to consume OData API in order to develop the skill. We recommend using
Progress DataDirect Cloud to generate OData feed from the CRM Solutions that you are
interested with.
If you have any questions or if you want to talk to our team, we are also
available on Slack