4.2.5 Retrieve a Single Entity and Its Directly Related Entities by Using the Verbose JSON Format

The following example illustrates the exchange of messages that is required for a client to retrieve a Customer entity (with EntityKey value equal to "ALFKI") and its associated Order EntityType instances. This example uses the Verbose JSON Format for all messages.

Request:

 GET /service.svc/Customers('ALFKI')?$expand=Orders 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
 DataServiceVersion: 3.0
  
 {"d": {
    "__metadata": { "uri": "Customers(\'ALFKI\')",
                    "type": "SampleModel.Customer",
                    "etag": "W/\"X\'000000000000FA01\'\""
                    "properties" : {
                               "Orders" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Customer(\'ALFKI\')/SampleModel.Customer/$links/Orders"                                                     }}                
                   },
    "CustomerID": "ALFKI",
    "CompanyName": "Alfreds Futterkiste",
    "Address": { "Street": "57 Contoso St", "City": "Seattle",
      "Location": {
        "crs": {
          "type": "name",
          "properties": { "name": "EPSG:4326" }
        },
        "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-127.9324, 49.2345]
      }
    },
    "Version": "AAAAAAAA+gE=",
    "Orders": [
          {
             "__metadata": { "uri": "Orders(1)",
                             "type": "SampleModel.Order"
                             "properties" : {
                               "Customer" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Orders(1)/SampleModel.Order/$links/Customer",
                               },
                               "OrderLines" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Orders(1)/SampleModel.Order/$links/OrderLines",
                               }}
                           },
             "OrderID": 1,
             "ShippedDate": "\/Date(872467200000)\/",
             "Customer":   { "__deferred": { "uri": "Orders(1)/SampleModel.Order/Customer" } }
             "OrderLines": { "__deferred": { "uri": "Orders(1)/SampleModel.Order/OrderLines" } }
          },
          {
             "__metadata": { "uri": "Orders(2)",
                             "type": "SampleModel.Order"
                              "properties" : {
                               "Customer" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Orders(2)/SampleModel.Order/$links/Customer",
                               },
                               "OrderLines" : {
                                 "associationuri" : "Orders(2)/SampleModel.Order/$links/OrderLines",
                               }}
                          },
             "OrderID": 2,
             "ShippedDate": "\/Date(875836800000)\/",
             "Customer":   { "__deferred": { "uri": "Orders(2)/SampleModel.Order/Customer" } }
             "OrderLines": { "__deferred": { "uri": "Orders(2)/SampleModel.Order/OrderLines" } }
  
          }
    ]
 } }