4.2 Retrieve Books by a Specific Author

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In this example, a protocol client requests information about all of the books that are associated with the author named Soha Kamal.

The protocol client sends the following message including some HTTP headers:

 GET /_vti_bin/client.svc/SampleCode.BookStore.Catalog/Books?$filter=Author%20eq%20'Soha%20Kamal' HTTP/1.1
 Host: www.example.com
 Accept: */*, application/json
 Content-Type: application/json

The protocol server responds with the following message including some HTTP headers:

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
  
 {
   "d":{
     "results":[
       {
         "__metadata":{
           "id":"a2ac7976-b585-4217-850c-c18a273da35c",
           "uri":"http://www.example.com/_vti_bin/client.svc/SampleCode.BookStore.Catalog/Books('3387ac63-e73d-421f-bff7-359a4aa2bc38')",
           "type":"SampleCode.Book"
         },
         "Author":"Soha Kamal",
         "Id":"3387ac63-e73d-421f-bff7-359a4aa2bc38",
         "PublishDate":"\/Date(1204329600000)\/",
         "Status":0,
         "Title":"How to Cook Chinese Food"
       },{
         "__metadata":{
           "id":"1449675e-0d53-435f-9953-c23c36a15c4e",
           "uri":"http://www.example.com/_vti_bin/client.svc/SampleCode.BookStore.Catalog/Books('f6a265ab-86e5-4fbf-937c-49923604b91d')",
           "type":"SampleCode.Book"
         },
         "Author":"Soha Kamal",
         "Id":"f6a265ab-86e5-4fbf-937c-49923604b91d",
         "PublishDate":"\/Date(1178236800000)\/",
         "Status":1,
         "Title":"How to Cook Japanese Food"
       }
     ]
   }
 }