Feature ask: support in memory filtering after ODataQueryOptions.ApplyTo()
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Description
I want to follow up on this very old ticket: https://github.com/OData/WebApi/issues/521
This issue was raised in 2015, and the same limitation seems still exist in the Odata.ApplyTo(). I am wondering is there a better solution than You can do this to check for a $select wrapper, get a Dictionary of key,values and then map it your model. at this moment?

Similar to the original question, I am trying to perform in memory filtering of a query, after it has been retrieved from the downstream API, and before returning it to the client.
Using ODataQueryOptions.ApplyTo(...) I can let OData do all it's query magic on the in-memory data. However if $expand or $select has been supplied, the returned IQueryable contains not the entities themselves, but SelectExpandWrapper objects. Which it is impossible to extract the original entity from.
Ideally I would like to be able to do something like this in a controller action
public IQueryable<Entity> GetFeed(ODataQueryOptions<Entity> opts)
{
IQueryable<Entity> result = opts.ApplyTo(<IEnumerable>.AsQueryable<Entity>())
foreach (var item in result)
{
// perform extra filtering here
}
return result;
}
Expected result
Any suggestions will be very helpful.
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Research direction
Start at ODataQueryOptions.ApplyTo(...) and trace how $select and $expand produce SelectExpandWrapper results for in-memory IQueryable data. Compare this behavior with the earlier issue linked in the description; done means a supported way to apply additional in-memory filtering while preserving the requested OData projection behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- api, backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100