[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ODATA-10) operator that returns the content of a Stream as either a String or Binary value

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Ralf Handl commented on ODATA-10:
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Actually the current ABNF of V4 as well as the WCF DS implementation of V3 don't allow appending /$value to a stream property. We should make that explicit in section 4.7 of the URL Conventions, see ODATA-285.

We could allow the cast function

http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Titles?$select=Name,cast(icon,Edm.String) 

or extend $expand:

http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Titles?$select=Name,icon&$expand=icon($cast=Edm.String)

> operator that returns the content of a Stream as either a String or Binary value
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ODATA-10
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-10
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData Protocol , OData URL Conventions 
>            Reporter: Andrew Eisenberg
>            Assignee: Michael Pizzo
>
> OData could be extended with an operator that returns the content of a Stream as either a String or Binary value.
> This could be expressed as:
> http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Titles?$select=Name,streamAsBinary(icon)
> or
> http://odata.netflix.com/v2/Catalog/Titles?$select=Name&$extendedSelect=streamAsBinary(icon) as Icon

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