[OASIS Issue Tracker] Updated: (ODATA-401) Replace "substringof" canonical function with "contains"

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Ralf Handl updated ODATA-401:
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    Proposal: 
Replace "substringof" canonical function with "contains". The first parameter being the sourcestring, and the second being the searchtext.

Accepted: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/49325/odata-meeting-38_on-20130523-minutes.html#odata-401

  was:Replace "substringof" canonical function with "contains". The first parameter being the sourcestring, and the second being the searchtext.


> Replace "substringof" canonical function with "contains"
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>
>                 Key: ODATA-401
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-401
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData Protocol , OData URL Conventions 
>    Affects Versions: V4.0_CSD01
>         Environment: [Proposed]
>            Reporter: Michael Pizzo
>             Fix For: V4.0_CSD02
>
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> The current definition of substringof takes first the string being searched for, and second the string being searched in.
> This is widely held to be the wrong order, especially since other string functions generally take the string as the first argument.
> This issue has long been a source of confusion in OData, made worse by the fact that the documentation often disagreed with the examples, and the documentation has changed several times.
> To prevent any confusion with legacy, I propose we retire the "substringof" function all together and replace it with "contains" with the argument in the more intuitive order (sourcestring, searchtext)

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