Injecting OData v4 into MVC 6

Question

I am currently hoping someone adventurous may have tackled this obstacle, as the current builds for MVC 6 running on ASP.Net v5.0 do not have any services I can find to load OData into the pipeline. I invoke the app.UseMvc() and can construct convention routing, but cannot define any HttpConfiguration object in the new process. I was really hoping to work with the combined MVC/WebApi in MVC 6, but OData v4 is a game changer.

If anyone has had experience and could point me in the correct direction, please advise:

It may not help greatly, but here is my Startup class:

using System;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Http;
using Microsoft.Data.OData;
// Won't work, but needs using System.Web.OData.Builder;
using Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection;

namespace bmiAPI
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
        {

            app.UseWelcomePage();
            app.UseMvc();

        }

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddMvc();

        }
    }
}

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC 6 does not yet support OData. To host OData in ASP.NET I would currently recommend using ASP.NET Web API 2.x, which supports both OData v3 and OData v4.

If you want to use OData in an ASP.NET 5 app, you can use the OWIN bridge to host Web API 2.x on ASP.NET 5, but it still won't be using MVC 6.

You'd then have some code like this (based on the aforementioned bridge):

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    // Use OWIN bridge to map between ASP.NET 5 and Katana / OWIN
    app.UseAppBuilder(appBuilder =>
    {
        // Some components will have dependencies that you need to populate in the IAppBuilder.Properties.
        // Here's one example that maps the data protection infrastructure.
        appBuilder.SetDataProtectionProvider(app);


        // Configure Web API for self-host. 
        HttpConfiguration config = new HttpConfiguration(); 
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute( 
            name: "DefaultApi", 
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}", 
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional } 
        );

        appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);
    };
}