Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read
Great article, learned a lot! Just a correction:
We do have a way to add more advanced querying capabilities to REST Api’s by implementing the OData (http://www.odata.org/) protocol on our API. You can specify which properties you want from a resource (using the $select param) and can request multiple resources together (using $expand). For example, you can get a person and their films in one request by calling
GET /person/{id}?$expand=films
You can also use filters to build more interesting queries, like fetching records whose created date is after some date, or do substring searches on string properties.