Importing OData metadata

Importing

File ▸ Import (Ctrl+I) then:

• an .edmx file;
• the URL of your service’s $metadata endpoint — the most convenient route;
• a CSDL JSON document (OData 4.0 / 4.01).

All three EDMX variants — v2, v3 and v4 — are recognised.

What is imported

Element	What Restorm makes of it
Each entity set	A folder holding its CRUD requests
Actions	An Actions folder
Functions	A Functions folder
The entity type and its properties	Pre-filled on each OData request
Navigation properties	Pre-filled (they feed $expand)
Operation parameters	Typed, with their qualified CSDL type
Query options	$filter, $select, $top, $skip prepared in advance
Models	The API documentation

The environment folder produced is tagged with the OData version detected, which then drives the requests’ behaviour.

$filter autocompletion

The imported metadata feeds the $filter field’s autocompletion: property names and operators are offered as you type.

Updating

OData is one of the re-syncable formats. See Updating from the source.