Iterate OData metadata

Question

How to iterate OData metadata? I need to iterate all entities, their properties with types, keys and navigation properties (all available information to be precise), but I got stuck since SchemaElements returns objects of internal types (Microsoft.OData.Edm.Csdl.CsdlSemantics.CsdlSemanticsEntityContainer) and I cannot cast them to get all this information.

var metadata = await _client.GetMetadataAsync();

foreach (var element in metadata.SchemaElements)

where client is declared this way:

Simple.OData.Client.ODataClient _client;

Answer 1

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Answer 2

If you can use https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.OData.Client/6.5.0 (note: this library is for OData v4 only), for v3 use https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.OData/.

ODataServiceDocument has property EntitySets.