[OASIS Issue Tracker] (ODATA-1080) $each as wildcard for keys

George Ericson created ODATA-1080:
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             Summary: $each as wildcard for keys
                 Key: ODATA-1080
                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/ODATA-1080
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Protocol
    Affects Versions: V4.01_CSD01
         Environment: Wildcard specificationa
            Reporter: George Ericson
            Assignee: George Ericson
             Fix For: V4.01_CSD02


There is a use case for specifying wildcards when processing a URL for use in requests.  Typically this is outside of OData, but it seems relevant to the use of $each.  So we want to vet it here.

For example, consider the following JSON: 
	"Wildcards": [ 
		{ 	"Name": "allSS",
			"Values": ["$each"] },
		{ 	"Name": "allV",
			"Values": ["$each"] },
		{ 	"Name": "percentStats",
			"Values": ["ReadIOPercent", "WriteIOPercent", "NonIOPercent"] }
    ],
	"MetricProperties": [
		"/redfish/v1/StorageServices/Members({allSS})/Volumes/Members({allV})/VolumeStatistics/{percentStats}"],

In the case of {allSS} or {allV} one natural specification would be to use "*" to mean all keys.  However as shown above, an alternative is to use the $each keyword to mean all.

So, several questions:
1) Should $each be available to mean all within parenthesis?  The /$each as a segment is consistent with the alternate key format. 
2) Should we define the wildcard substitution within OData?
3) For this purpose, should we use "*" for all of the above instead of $each.
		





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