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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ODATA-364) Remove restriction that a property MUST NOT have the same name as its containing type
[ http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-364?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=33335#action_33335 ] Ralf Handl commented on ODATA-364: ---------------------------------- I assumed that the restriction would "cascade down" to derived types, but I now see that I can interpret the prose text in a way that allows my example. Nicely enough C# also reads it that way: I can have a member Manager in class Employee, and a member Employee in class Manager, Manager deriving from Employee. I can also build a fully working service with the WCF Reflection Provider where Manager has a member Employee. And I can build a service where Employee has a member Manager, and the only thing that fails in this service is the call to $metadata, because this part of WCF Data Services is pickier than C# :-) So for now I would be satisfied if we explicitly state that this restriction only applies to directly declared properties and does not apply to inherited properties. Which has benefit because the "non-breaking" change of adding a property to the base entity type cannot break the derived entity type > Remove restriction that a property MUST NOT have the same name as its containing type > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ODATA-364 > URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-364 > Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: OData CSDL > Affects Versions: V4.0_CSD01 > Environment: [Proposed] > Reporter: Ralf Handl > Fix For: V4.0_CSD02 > > > Chapters 8 and 9 state that > - Properties MUST NOT have the same name as the declaring entity type. > - Properties MUST NOT have the same name as the declaring complex type. > This sometimes prevents using natural names for properties, e.g. > - EntityType Employee > - EntityType Manager inherits from Employee > - EntityType Employee has NavigationProperty that leads to the manager > The natural name for the navigation property is Manager, but prevented by the above rule. So the navigation property has to be named "TheManager" or "manager" (using different case) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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