OData Connector Overview

You can focus on business logic and build RESTful APIs with OData instead of defining request headers, response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats and the query options. OData guides you to track changes and define functions, or actions for reusable procedures and send asynchronous, or batch requests. Use OData for extension and to fulfill any custom needs of your RESTful APIs. OData builds on core protocols, such as HTTP and commonly recognized methodologies like REST.

OData Connector integrates Informatica Cloud or Informatica Cloud Application Integration with systems, such as SharePoint, databases, SAP OData services, and Team Foundation Services. These systems are OData compliant, on-premise compliant or cloud applications compliant. OData Connector communicates with these systems in the OData protocol. Use the OData Connector to connect to an OData service via restful API calls. Rest calls can be in XML or JSON format. Choose the format that the OData service supports.

Create an OData connection to specify objects that are exposed in an OData service that you want to include in a task. You can use the OData connection in Data Synchronization tasks, mappings, and Mapping Configuration tasks.

You can configure a Data Synchronization task using the Data Synchronization Task wizard. Create a Data Synchronization task to synchronize data between a source and target. You can perform insert, update, upsert, or delete operations on OData objects. Create a Mapping Configuration task to process data based on the data flow logic defined in a mapping or integration template.

Informatica Cloud Application Integration allows you to interact with objects that are exposed in an OData service.

Create an OData connection to connect to objects in an OData service. Use the connection in a process to perform multiple activities. You can specify an OData connection in step types such as Assignment and Create.