readonly option and metadata as string

[jkougoulos]

I am using Odata2poco as a library in a small project I am experimenting with and I have 2 questions that I could not figure out:

a. Is there an option to control the behavior of the read-only feature that was introduced in #27 ? In my case I need to get the POCO with {get;set;} no matter what is configured in the edmx.

b. Is there a way to provide the OData service metadata to OData2Poco as a string instead of providing the url or filename ?

(I have workarounds for the above, but they are a bit ugly, eg string replace the generated code and use a temporary file)

thanks!

[moh-hassan]

Welcome to OData2Poco Project.

a. Is there an option to control the behavior of the read-only feature that was introduced in #27 ?

Currently, there is no one.
I will add this feature in the next release.

b. Is there a way to provide the OData service metadata to OData2Poco as a string instead of providing the url or filename ?
yes, there is a way to provide string values.
You can save the metadata in an xml file and use the option -x

o2pgen -r file_name.xml // use file instead of url

[jkougoulos]

Great, thanks for the info!

I do not use the command line version for this project, so I use a similar workaround to pass the metadata:

            string tmpfile = Path.GetTempPath() + Guid.NewGuid() + ".xml";
            File.WriteAllText(tmpfile, _metadata);

            var o2pconnstring = new OData2Poco.OdataConnectionString
            {
                ServiceUrl = tmpfile
            };

Was just looking for a way to avoid the intermediate file, but it is fine this way too.

[moh-hassan]

Hi @jkougoulos
A new version v4.2.1 is published in nuget.org that implement your feature request.
How to use: read wiki
try it online

[jkougoulos]

Great, thanks! I will test it and report back if I see any issues