Question

ASP.NET MVC4 Beta introduced an easy way to create OData endpoints using WebAPI.

So having the following controller:

public class ValuesController : ApiController
{
    // GET /api/values
    public IQueryable<Document> Get()
    {
        return (new[] { 
            new Document() { Info = "a", Title = "qwe1" }, 
            new Document() { Info = "b", Title = "qwe2" }, }).AsQueryable();
    }
}

I can query the data with url’s like: http://localhost:44087/api/values?$filter=Title eq ‘qwe1’

Is there a proper .net library that can consume this? So I could do something like:

new WebApiClient("http://localhost:44087/api/values")
                    .Get<Document>().Where(x=>x.Title == "qwe1").ToList()

Without specifying the $filter=Title eq 'qwe1' part manually?

Answer 1

The best thing I found so far is netFX HttpEntityClient.
Though, it looks pretty good, it sounds strange that I found nothing comparable from MS..