4.2.7 Retrieve the Count of a Collection of Entities
The following example illustrates the exchange of messages required for a client to retrieve a count of all Customer entities. This example is supported only in the OData 2.0 and OData 3.0 protocols.
Request:
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GET /service.svc/Customers/$count HTTP/1.1 Host: host Accept: text/plain DataServiceVersion: 2.0 MaxDataServiceVersion: 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain
Response:
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/plain DataServiceVersion: 2.0; Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 21:41:31 GMT Content-Length: 2 91