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Text "Date" will be parsed as "EDM.Date" type segment in URL parser #680

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LianwMS opened this issue Aug 12, 2016 · 2 comments
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Text "Date" will be parsed as "EDM.Date" type segment in URL parser #680

LianwMS opened this issue Aug 12, 2016 · 2 comments
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LianwMS commented Aug 12, 2016

Short summary (3-5 sentences) describing the issue.
During the parsing of the following URL (KeyAsSegment): "https://localhost/beta/me/EntityA/Date", "Data" will be parsed as type segment, which does not follow the protocol.

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ODL 6.x and 7.x

Reproduce steps

Parse "https://localhost/beta/me/EntityA/Date" with KeyAsSegment settings.
The type of key in EntityA is string.

Expected result

Date should be a KeySegment.

Actual result

Date is a typesegment.

Additional details

FindDeclaredType in Edm lib will find type "Edm.Data" given "Date"

@Lingxi-Li Lingxi-Li added the bug label Aug 24, 2016
@Lingxi-Li Lingxi-Li self-assigned this Aug 24, 2016
@Lingxi-Li Lingxi-Li removed the bug label Aug 24, 2016
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A simple test case that reproduces the issue:

var model = new EdmModel();
var entityType = new EdmEntityType("NS", "Entity");
entityType.AddKeys(entityType.AddStructuralProperty("IdStr", EdmPrimitiveTypeKind.String, false));
var container = new EdmEntityContainer("NS", "Container");
var set = container.AddEntitySet("Set", entityType);
model.AddElements(new IEdmSchemaElement[] { entityType, container });

var svcRoot = new Uri("http://host", UriKind.Absolute);
var parseResult = new ODataUriParser(model, svcRoot, new Uri("http://host/Set/Date", UriKind.Absolute)).ParseUri();

It actually results in an exception

Microsoft.OData.ODataException : The type 'Edm.Date' specified in the URI is neither a base type nor a sub-type of the previously-specified type 'NS.Entity'.

This is exactly because Date is interpreted as a type-cast segment.

But the real question here is whether this is a bug or expected behavior. According to the spec, string literals are those enclosed within single-quotes. Since you are giving in the key segment the literal value for a string-typed key, It should, in theory, follow the string-literal syntax. Therefore, a correct key-as-segment request URL should be http://host/Set/'Date' instead of http://host/Set/Date. The library works out just fine on the former.

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This looks like an issue anyway. In the spec, type-cast is associated with qualified type name. A qualified name should contain a namespace part. In other words, Date should not be interpreted as a type-cast segment anyway; only Edm.Date should. I'm going to fix this. After that, Date in this case should be interpreted as a key segment even though it's not enclosed within single-quotes.

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