How do I update an OData entity and modify its navigation properties in one request?

Question

I am trying to implement what I thought was a simple scenario using an OData service provided by WCF Data services (using the OData V3 application/json;odata=verbose payload

Answer 1

I found two ways to represent navigation properties inline:

application/json;odata=verbose - { "Name": "new name", "Category": { "__metadata": { "uri": "Categories(2)" }}}

application/json - { "Name": "new name", "Category@odata.bind": "Categories(2)" }