How to consume an OData Service | Mendix
Explore how to seamlessly integrate OData services into your Mendix applications with this practical tutorial. Streamlining the data consumption process, you’ll learn to harness the full potential of OData to enhance efficiency and connectivity in your Mendix projects.
In this blog post, I will teach you how to use Consume OData Services in Mendix!
Prerequisites to this tutorial
- OData Test Service (https://services.odata.org/)
Step by Step
- Start by accessing OData Service (https://services.odata.org/)
2. Click on the first link to visualize the service
3. In Studio Pro, Right-click on your module →Add Other and select Consumed OData service
4. Insert a name and select the option URL
5. Go back to the browser and copy the URL
6. Paste on the Metadata URL field and add ‘$metadata’ at the end of the URL.
7. Create a new constant called ‘ServiceURL’
8. As a default value insert the link copied on point 5
9. On the Connection section, fill the Service URL with the constant created
10. Go to the “Integration” tab (if you don’t have one, go to the top menu → View and click Integration) and check the service
11. Drag and drop the entity Products to your domain model
12. To check the associations between the entities you can also drag and drop the entity Categories
13. Double-click on the Products entity, go to Access Rules and create a new one.
14. Do the same for the Categories entity
15. Right Click on the Product entity and click to Generate Overview pages
16. Add the Products_Overview page to the Navigation
17. Permit the user role to access the pages Products_Overview and Products_NewEdit
18. Click to Run
19. Click to open the Products page to check if everything went well
The end of the tutorial.
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