[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-374) Supporting heterogeneous return types in a service operation response

Supporting heterogeneous return types in a service operation response
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                 Key: ODATA-374
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-374
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: OData CSDL, OData Protocol 
            Reporter: Anila Kumar GVN


It is not clear if OData enables a service to return a collection of heterogenous entity/complex types as a response to a function call. 

I want to return a collection of types in response to a function call but each of the items in the collection could belong to different entity types.

Example:

/OData.svc/GetCreatedEntities?before=xxxx-xx-xx&after=xxxx-xx-xx

here GetCreatedEntities is a function call on my product that return a collection of entities that are Created in a given time period. Return Type is a Collection Type that could contain a Customer type, Order type etc.

Is it supported in OData? 

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