OData Consumer 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 query options. OData guides you to track changes and define functions, take 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 Consumer Connector integrates Informatica Cloud 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 Consumer Connector communicates with these systems in the OData V4 protocol.

Use the OData Consumer Connector to connect to an OData Consumer service through restful API calls. Rest calls can be in ATOM/XML or JSON format. Choose the format that the OData Consumer service supports. Create an OData Consumer connection to specify objects that are exposed in an OData Consumer service that you want to include in a task.

You can use the OData Consumer connection in Data Synchronization tasks, mappings, and Mapping Configuration tasks. You cannot perform write operations on OData Consumer objects.