4.2.3 Retrieve a Single Entity by Using the Verbose JSON Format

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The following example illustrates the exchange of messages that is required for a client to retrieve a Customer entity with an EntityKey value that is equal to "ALFKI" by using the Verbose JSON format.

Request:

 GET /service.svc/Customers('ALFKI') HTTP/1.1
 Host: host
 Accept: application/json;odata=verbose
 DataServiceVersion: 1.0
 MaxDataServiceVersion: 3.0

Response:

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:17:11 GMT
 Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose
 Content-Length: nnn
 ETag: W/"X'000000000000FA01'"
 DataServiceVersion: 3.0
  
 {"d":
  { 
    "__metadata": { "uri": "Customers(\'ALFKI\')", 
                    "type": "SampleModel.Customer",
                    "etag": "W/\"X\'000000000000FA01\'\"" 
                     "properties" : {
                               "Orders" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Customers(\'ALFKI\')/SampleModel.Customer/$links/Orders ",
                               },
                  },  
    "CustomerID": "ALFKI", 
    "CompanyName": " Alfreds Futterkiste", 
    "Address": { "Street": "57 Contoso St", "City": "Seattle",
      "Location": {
        "crs": {
          "type": "name",
          "properties": { "name": "EPSG:4326" }
        },
        "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-127.9324, 49.2345]
      }
    },
    "Version": "AAAAAAAA+gE=",
    "Orders":  { "__deferred": { "uri": "Customers(\'ALFKI\')/SampleModel.Customer/Orders" } }
  }
 }