[OASIS Issue Tracker] (ODATA-992) Prefer numeric representation of enumeration values

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Ralf Handl created ODATA-992:
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             Summary: Prefer numeric representation of enumeration values
                 Key: ODATA-992
                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/ODATA-992
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: OData CSDL, OData CSDL JSON , OData JSON Format
    Affects Versions: V4.0_ERRATA03
         Environment: Proposed
            Reporter: Ralf Handl
             Fix For: V4.01_WD01


Part 3: CSDL states that enumeration values are sorted and compared using their numeric value because it allows synonym symbolic names with the same numeric value.

Part 3: CSDL also only allows symbolic values in annotations.

JSON Format on the other hand states that the symbolic name, represented as a string, is preferred.

This makes life unnecessarily complicated for clients to evaluate conditional annotation expressions based on enums as they can't compare enum values in annotations and payloads without internally translating them into numeric values, which they can only know after reading vocabulary files.



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