The current trend of the software industry is moving towards Open Data Protocols. One of the most interesting and popular data protocols that have sprung into existence recently is Open Data Protocol or OData. OData is a web-based protocol used to query and/or update data. OData uses standard web technologies, such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol, XML, and JSON to communicate and provide access to the information present on the server to the external world.

Even though OData is not the only way to enable representational-relational data from the server, it brings a standardization on how the data should be represented using a unique URI, which allows the data to be filtered, queried, manipulated, and so on. OData can be thought of as a tap from the ecosystem that exposes the dataset or a tap into the ecosystem of developers who can build applications very easily, as the way in which OData API works is easily understood by them...