OData Features Supported by Mock Server

List of OData version 2.0 features supported or not supported by the mock server

The mock server only supports the JSON format for representing the resources it exposes, such as collections, entries, and links.

Restriction

The mock server doesn’t support more than one draft service in an application.

The following table lists the OData features that are supported by the mock server.

Table 1: Supported OData Features
Feature	Status
CRUD calls	Supported
Navigations	Supported
Query String options:
- Orderby System Query Option (`$orderby`)	Supported
- Top System Query Option (`$top`)	Supported
- Skip System Query Option (`$skip`)	Supported
- Filter System Query Option (`$filter`)	Supported; `eq`, `ne`, `gt`, `lt`, `ge`, `le`, `substringof`, `startswith`, `endswith`, `and`, `or`
- Expand System Query Option (`$expand`)	Supported
- Select System Query Option (`$select`)	Supported
- Inlinecount System Query Option (`$inlinecount`)	Supported
- Format System Query Option (`$format`)	Supported; only JSON format is allowed
Batch processing	Supported
Multiple services	Supported; we recommend to create one Mock Server instance per service
Update via `MERGE`/`PATCH`	Supported
ETag handling	Supported

The following table lists the OData features that are not supported by the mock server.

Table 2: Unsupported OData Features
Feature	Status
Service operations (function imports)	Unsupported, but can be extended
Annotations	Unsupported
Getting individual properties of an entity (`$value`)	Unsupported
`Edm.DateTime` keys	Unsupported
`Edm.DateTime` values	All dates have to be either before 2017 or after; you cannot use mixed values
metadata.xml with properties from `datetimeoffset`	Unsupported
Key of type `Edm.Boolean`	Unsupported
Key of type `Edm.Int64`	Unsupported
`$links` and `#AddressingLinksBetweenEntries`	Unsupported For more information see Addressing Links between Entries and Referencing Requests in a Change Set on http://www.odata.org/.
Multiple navigation properties	Unsupported
Response in byte array format	Unsupported
Combination of the system queries `$select` and `$expand` in draft OData services	Unsupported
Filter query string operator (`$filter`) with one of the functions `substringof(string po, string p1)`, `endswith(string p0, string p1)` or `startswith(string p0, string p1)`	Does not support input strings (`p0` or `p1`) containing a comma `,`.
Key values containing a comma	Unsupported