Web API

While presented as a developer-oriented enhancement added to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, the Web API is one of the features that even non-developers should be aware of when evaluating the platform's ability to integrate and communicate with other tools.

The Web API provides the ability to communicate with various other programming languages, platforms, and devices. The protocol implemented is Open Data Protocol (OData), version 4.0. This is a standard used for building RESTful APIs, and allows resources to be published to various web-enabled clients using simple HTTP messages.

For technical details on the standards, see the protocol documentation provided by OASIS:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/os/part1-protocol/odata-v4.0-os-part1-protocol.html

Due to the no-code nature of this book, we will not cover in detail the various aspects of this protocol, but it is important to remember that this is what enables various applications, on a multitude of platforms, to communicate...