[OASIS Issue Tracker] Issue Comment Edited: (ODATA-73) Retrieve the count of related entities together with the base entity

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Ralf Handl edited comment on ODATA-73 at 10/26/12 5:46 AM:
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Note: a different approach to solve this issue was proposed in ODATA-132 and rejected, so we are back here.

      was (Author: ralfhandl):
    Note: the proposal in ODATA-132 suggests a different (and more elegant) approach to achieving the same result.
  
> Retrieve the count of related entities together with the base entity
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>                 Key: ODATA-73
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-73
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData URL Conventions v1.0
>    Affects Versions: WD01
>         Environment: [Proposed]
>            Reporter: Ralf Handl
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: WD01
>
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> $expand allows retrieving an entity or a set of entities together with related entities in one request.
> In many situations it is desirable to just retrieve the number of related entities, not the related entities themselves, e.g. get a list of products and the number of reviews for each product.

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