[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ODATA-24) Simplify how Relationships are expressed in CSDL

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Ralf Handl commented on ODATA-24:
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The 2012-11-16 version of the document proposes four forms of stating the entity set. This is inconsistent with type usage, which always has to be consistently qualified with the schema namespace or alias name. 

I suggest to simplify NavigationPropertyBinding to always require qualified names of the form 

    <NavigationPropertyBinding EntitySet="SchemaNamespaceOrAlias.Container.Set" .../>

i.e. with at least three name segments.

> Simplify how Relationships are expressed in CSDL
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ODATA-24
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-24
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData CSDL v1.0
>    Affects Versions: WD01
>         Environment: [Proposed]
>            Reporter: Michael Pizzo
>            Assignee: Ralf Handl
>             Fix For: WD01
>
>
> Relationships are expressed in CSDL as binary associations with association sets; navigation properties reference these associations and describe target and source "ends" of these associations.
> The requirement of defining binary associations for each relationship makes the CSDL more verbose, harder to read, and moves the information that is interesting about the navigation property out of line.
> A simpler way to express navigation properties is summarized in the following presentation, presented at the first OData TC Meeting in July:  
> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/46576/Association%20Simplification.pptx.
> A complete proposal would be the application of these concepts to [OData-CSDL].

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