[OASIS Issue Tracker] (ODATA-655) The atom:id element is mandatory, but clients (doing POST of a new entity) might not know an appropriate value

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Evan Ireland created ODATA-655:
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             Summary: The atom:id element is mandatory, but clients (doing POST of a new entity) might not know an appropriate value
                 Key: ODATA-655
                 URL: https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-655
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OData ATOM Format 
    Affects Versions: V4.0_CS02
            Reporter: Evan Ireland
             Fix For: V4.1_WD01


6.2 Element atom:id

  "The atom:id element MUST contain the entity-id"

This is a problem for clients creating new entities. In the case of a server supporting canonical URLs, if some of the key properties are server-generated, the client won't know what is an appropriate entity-id.

Also, the ATOM Syndication spec makes it clear that atom:entry must have an atom:id.

For OData, we need to define what value a client should pass for atom:id (in POST) when atom:id is not knowable to the client.




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