en-US/about_OData.help.txt

TOPIC
    about_OData
 
COPYRIGHT
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DESCRIPTION
    The OData PowerShell provider allows you to mount OData feeds as drives
    in your PowerShell session.
     
GETTING STARTED
    Mounting an OData Feed
        To mount an OData feed, use the new-psdrive PowerShell cmdlet, specifying
        the OData provider and the URI of the feed as the drive's root:
 
        new-psdrive -psprovider OData -name netflix -root 'http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/'
 
        Once this command is executed, your PowerShell session will have a netflix:
        drive available. This drive can be used to interrogate the OData feed
        using the standard PowerShell provider cmdlets.
 
        For example:
 
        > cd netflix:
        > dir
         
            Container: OData::http:\\odata.netflix.com\v2\Catalog
 
 
                   Uri Name
        ---------- --- ----
        d < http://odata.netflix.... Genres
        d < http://odata.netflix.... Titles
        d < http://odata.netflix.... TitleAudioFormats
        d < http://odata.netflix.... TitleAwards
        d < http://odata.netflix.... People
        d < http://odata.netflix.... TitleScreenFormats
        d < http://odata.netflix.... Languages
 
        > cd Genres
        > dir
 
 
 
FEATURES
    The OData PowerShell provider currently supports the following features:
 
    * OData read operations; write operations are not supported at this time.
 
    * OData content read operations; write operations are not supported at
      this time.
 
    * Standard server-side filtering and sorting operations.
 
      The -filter parameter of any supported cmdlet can be provided a standard
      OData service query string or filter expression. For more information see:
 
      get-help about_OData_Query
 
    * Mapping an entity category term to the entity typename to enable custom
      formats for feeds. For more information see:
 
      get-help about_OData_Format
 
SEE ALSO
    http://o.codeplex.com
    http://www.odata.org
    about_OData_Version
    about_OData_Query
    about_OData_Format