[OASIS Issue Tracker] Updated: (ODATA-313) Problem with "Function Overload Resolution" due to null values having ambiguous type

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Ralf Handl updated ODATA-313:
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       Proposal: Explicitly state that clients MAY use qualified null values of the form null'<PrimitiveType>' (e.g. null'Date') to disambiguate their requests, and that servers MUST respond with 400 Bad Request and ideally an explicitly specified code value in the standard error response.  (was: Disallow overloaded actions and functions. It may prove to be more trouble than it is worth to support them without running into issues of ambiguity.
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    Environment: [Proposed]
       Assignee: Ralf Handl

Proposal was: Disallow overloaded actions and functions. It may prove to be more trouble than it is worth to support them without running into issues of ambiguity.

> Problem with "Function Overload Resolution" due to null values having ambiguous type
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>                 Key: ODATA-313
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-313
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData Protocol 
>    Affects Versions: V4.0_WD01
>         Environment: [Proposed]
>            Reporter: Evan Ireland
>            Assignee: Ralf Handl
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> CSDL spec (2013-03-12) states in section 10.5.3.4 "Function overload resolution"
>   Functions overloads are supported in OData, meaning a service MAY expose multiple functions with the same name that take a different set of parameters.
>   When a function is invoked (using any of the three parameter syntaxes) the parameter names and parameter values are specified in the URL, and the parameter types can be deduced from each parameter value. The combination of the Function name and the unordered list of parameter types and names is always sufficient to identify a particular function overload.
> However, if one or more parameter values are null, there might be multiple functions (with same-named parameters but differing types corresponding to the null-valued parameter(s)). A null value can resolve to any primitive/complex/entity type. Thus overload resolution would be ambiguous.

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