Overview of ODATA in SAP
Data Model is design of Data. How related data is put together in data collection called Entities and how entities relate to each other. Entity Types * Entity Type or Entity is like a structure which can hold one data record. In ABAP programming terms, we can compare it to a work area. * Entity type has properties with some of the properties marked as Keys. More details on the properties like Type, Length are also defined. Entity Sets * Entity Sets are collection of same entity types. Order Detail is an entity – Order details i.e. Collection of multiple order detail entities is an Entity Set. This is like a table. * Entity Set simply refers to Entity Type. Association * Associations are relationships between two entity types. It defines the cardinality/multiplicity between the related entities. * In this example, Orders and Order Details Entity Sets ar...