Docker for Windows

[Norm-Cota]

I ran into issues trying to run the docker image from within Docker for Windows against an OData that is running on localhost. I also figured out the workaround and thought I should post it for documentation purposes.

The default installation of Docker for Windows does not enable containers to connect to the host via localhost. ie. "http://localhost" doesn't work. A workaround is documented at docker here: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/networking/#use-cases-and-workarounds

Additionally, the "$" in the standard metadata url seems to cause issues. I'm not sure why, but the workaround is to URL encode the "$" to "%24".

So, the example command when running in Docker for Windows when the target is running on the host machine is:

docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}:/local diegomvh/odataapigen \
    Name=MsGraph \
    Metadata=http://host.docker.internal/%24metadata \
    Output=/local

Hope this helps.

[diegomvh]

Hi @Norm-Cota
thank you very much,
soon I add this information to the README