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POWhat web service framework to choose for .NET
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copied!<p>We have a Silverlight application which consumes existing WCF Ria service. Now we are going to write new front-end application using HTML/JavaScript. Obviously, WCF Ria Services is not the best option to consume by JavaScript client, that's why we need to decide what to choose. I'm looking at <a href="http://www.asp.net/web-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ASP.NET Web API</a>, <a href="http://www.odata.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OData</a> and <a href="http://www.servicestack.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ServiceStack</a>. Personally, I like the transparency of ServiceStack but OData supports many useful features out-of-the-box. Framework of my dream does the following:</p> <ul> <li>Handles different serialization formats.</li> <li>Plays nicely with others (there should not be a problem to consume service from non-ms-tenchnologies-based application).</li> <li>Allows to filter data like <a href="http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-v2-documentation/uri-conventions/#45_Filter_System_Query_Option_filter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OData $filter</a> but not particularly using its syntax, any other would be acceptable.</li> <li>Allows to expand object navigational properties like <a href="http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-v2-documentation/uri-conventions/#46_Expand_System_Query_Option_expand" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OData $expand</a>.</li> <li>Implements RESTful services with clean URIs and correct HTTP methods mapping.</li> </ul> <p>Can I achieve those with ServiceStack? Or maybe some other framework not mentioned here?</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <ul> <li>For navigational properties expanding (or hiding) one may refer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14858641/how-to-omit-get-only-properties-in-servicestack-json-serializer/14859968#14859968">this answer</a></li> <li>For query serialization see <a href="http://linq2rest.codeplex.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">linq2rest</a> project</li> </ul>

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