2.2.1.1 Named Resource Stream

Applies to the OData 3.0 protocol

Named resource streams are properties of an EntityType that are of type Edm.Stream, where the Name of the named resource stream is simply the name of the property. Edm.Stream is an EDMSimpleType introduced in version 2.2 of the Entity Data Model (EDM).

Named resource streams represent and point at unstructured streams of data (such as images or documents). Each named resource stream MUST have a name, which is a simple identifier, as specified in [MC-CSDL] (section 2.2.6). For each named resource stream that is defined on an EntityType, any corresponding EntityType instance MUST have a corresponding named resource stream instance.

Named resource streams are supported only in the OData 3.0 protocol.