To me, OData is simply the Broker API exposed as a web service – at least the most popular functionality of the original Broker API.  This is useful if your website is not .NET or Java based (PHP for instance), or if the app that needs to pull content across the internet or via AJAX, or for some other reason where database calls to the Broker are restricted.  In this tutorial I cover getting started with OData and also dive into some of the more advanced query string operations.
 

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