Hi Olingo Team,
I'm interested in getting OData directly supported in Apache CXF, please
see [1].
CXF offers its own Search API which currently supports Feed Item Query
Language (FIQL). It works similar to the way Olingo works, a FIQL parser
parsers a FIQL expression and users register so called search visitors
which adapt the parsed expression to other query languages such as SQL, etc.
IMHO supporting OData directly with CXF Search API with the help of
Olingo will be really nice. It will help CXF users to get a better
understanding of OData and perhaps will encourage them to work more with
Olingo in cases where a CXF Olingo-based solution will prove limiting as
suggested at [1].
After thinking about this for a while, it appears to me that perhaps we
should simply start the work in CXF and start asking questions on Olingo
users or dev lists and may be offer some patches if needed and if the
analysis will prove implementing [1] is realistic.
I'd like to ask however: do you reckon it might make sense to do it in
Olingo itself ? For example, we'd create a new Maven tree, example,
/integration/cxf and work there. Perhaps that can be distracting for the
core Olingo effort, so for now I'm inclined to do it at CXF level,
Comments are welcome
Thanks, Sergey
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5430
