The first issue I hit was when trying to filter by a regarding object on an appointment. My first thought was is this not supported in the preview? I took a standard oData query from the 2011 endpoint and converted it so that this:
/xrmservices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/AppointmentSet?$select=Subject&$filter=RegardingObjectId/Id eq (guid'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199')
became this:
/api/data/appointments?$select=subject&$filter=regardingobjectid/id eq (guid'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199')
But I get presented with the error
Unrecognized 'Edm.String' literal 'guid'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199''
So what's going wrong? I tried many different variations, such as:
/api/data/appointments?$select=subject&$filter=regardingobjectid/id eq guid'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199'
/api/data/appointments?$select=subject&$filter=regardingobjectid eq (guid'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199')
etc... I always got 1 of 3 errors, the one previously mentioned, or
Can only bind segments that are Navigation, Structural, Complex, or Collections.
A binary operator with incompatible types was detected. Found operand types 'Edm.Guid' and 'Edm.String' for operator kind 'Equal'
The final error mentioned was by doing a direct comparison
/api/data/appointments?$select=subject&$filter=regardingobjectid eq 'a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199'
And it got me thinking, maybe they've changed something. A quick look at oData 4.0 and I find that they've done away with both specifying the object type and the quotes for guids. The query is simply this:
/api/data/appointments?$select=subject&$filter=regardingobjectid eq a199a199-a199-a199-a199-a199a199a199
A sample on this query would have been nice (maybe there is one, I couldn't find it!)... But I'm liking these changes a lot!
