The article pretty much sums up why I've been a bigger fan of OData than GraphQL, especially in the business cases. OData will still let you get all those same wins that GraphQL does but without a sql-ish query syntax, and sticking to the REST roots that the web works better with. Also helps that lots of Microsoft services work out of the box with OData.
mansa10|2 months ago
- Overly verbose endpoint & request syntax: $expand, parenthesis and quotes in paths, actions etc.
- Exposes too much filtering control by default, allowing the consumer to do "bad things" on unindexed fields without steering them towards the happy path.
- Bad/lacking open source tooling for portals, mocks, examples, validation versus OpenAPI & graphQL.
It all smells like unpolished MS enterprise crap with only internal MS & SAP adoption TBH.
rawgabbit|2 months ago