CSA Group Information technology — Open data protocol (OData) v4.0 Part 2: OData JSON Format (Adopted ISO/IEC 20802-2:2016, first edition, 2016-12-15)

Preface   Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the SCC Mirror Committee (SMC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).  Introduction The OData protocol is comprised of a set of specifications for representing and interacting with structured content. The core specification for the protocol is in [OData-Protocol]; this document is an extension of the core protocol. This document defines representations for the OData requests and responses using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), see [RFC7159].  An OData JSON payload may represent:  a single primitive value  a collection of primitive values  a single complex type value  a collection of complex type values  a single entity or entity reference  a collection of entities or entity references  a collection of changes  a service document describing the top-level resources exposed by the service  an error.