[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ODATA-364) Remove restriction that a property MUST NOT have the same name as its containing type

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Michael Pizzo commented on ODATA-364:
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In order to ensure a good client experience for consuming odata services in a variety of languages/platforms, we often define rules in CSDL that reflect limitations of different programming languages.

Some programming languages prevent members from having the same name as the containing type, so we built this restriction into CSDL.

> Remove restriction that a property MUST NOT have the same name as its containing type
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>
>                 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
>
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> 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)

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