[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-185) Nullable attribute should be required to be false for collection valued navigation properties.

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Nullable attribute should be required to be false for collection valued navigation properties.
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                 Key: ODATA-185
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-185
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OData CSDL v1.0
         Environment: [Proposed]
            Reporter: Michael Pizzo
            Assignee: Michael Pizzo
            Priority: Minor


ODATA-24 simplified relationships by moving association information into the navigation property. In doing so, cardinality was represented by the type of the navigation property being either a single entity or a collection of entities. For a single entity, optionality of the entity (i.e., 0 or 1) is represented by a nullable attribute (whose default is false).

For navigation properties that return collections of entities, nullable=true doesn't make sense; the collection always exists, it may just be empty. Thus, collection-valued navigation properties should either:
1) always specify nullable=false 
2) explicitly prohibit specifying nullable=true, or
3) disallow the nullable attribute

Note that there is precedence for the set of valid attributes depending on the type (i.e., in specifying property facets).

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