How to create OData V2 entity path dynamically in UI5?

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Create the path dynamically via the API createKey from the V2 ODataModel:

const path = myODataV2Model.createKey("/Products", {
  // Key(s) and value(s) of that entity set
  "ProductID": myVar1, // with the value 999 for example
  "AnotherKeyProperty": "...",
});
myODataV2Model.update(path/*, ...*/);

Compared to concatenating strings for the path manually, createKey offers the following advantages:

  • It outputs the key value always in the correct format corresponding to the EDM type of the given property (using ODataUtils.formatValue internally). E.g.: If ProductID has the type Edm.Int64, UI5 appends the character "l" in the output string aligning with the OData specification: "999" → "999l"
  • It makes sure that all keys are encoded according to the URI standard (using encodeURIComponentapi internally). E.g.: ProductID='sp ace' → ProductID='sp%20ace'
  • It outputs the key values always in the correct order no matter which backend system serves the metadata. Given the same metadata definition, it is possible that one system serves the metadata with keys in different orders than others. In such cases, if keys are just concatenated manually, the app would fail horribly throwing vague errors when it’s transported to the system serving different key orders.

Note

Since createKey relies on the information from the service metadata, the API should be performed after $metadata is loaded. For this, the promise based API metadataLoaded can be used.

myODataV2Model.metadataLoaded().then(/*createKey*/);

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