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Introduction

The OData protocol is comprised of a set of specifications for representing and interacting with structured content. The core specification for the protocol is in [OData-Protocol]; this document is an extension of the core protocol. This document defines representations for the OData requests and responses using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), see [RFC7159]. An OData JSON payload may represent:

• a single primitive value
• a collection of primitive values
• a single complex type value
• a collection of complex type values
• a single entity or entity reference
• a collection of entities or entity references
•  a collection of changes
• a service document describing the top-level resources exposed by the service
• an error