How to get Web API OData v4 to use DateTime

Question

I have a fairly large data model that I want to expose using Web API OData using the OData V4 protocol.

The underlying data is stored in a SQL Server 2012 database.

Answer 1

Since i use a library for odata with angular, i investigated it there:

https://github.com/devnixs/ODataAngularResources/blob/master/src/odatavalue.js

There you can see ( javascript)

var generateDate = function(date,isOdataV4){
        if(!isOdataV4){
            return "datetime'" + date.getFullYear() + "-" + ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + "-" + ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + "T" + ("0" + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" + ("0" + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2)+':'+("0" + date.getSeconds()).slice(-2) + "'";
        }else{
            return date.getFullYear() + "-" + ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + "-" + ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + "T" + ("0" + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" + ("0" + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2)+':'+("0" + date.getSeconds()).slice(-2) + "Z";
        }
    };

And the test expects ( cfr. here )

 $httpBackend.expectGET("/user(1)?$filter=date eq 2015-07-28T10:23:00Z")

So this should be your "formatting"

2015-07-28T10:23:00Z