I recently ran into an issue with trying to enable an SData feed on a custom entity. I was actually trying to expose the PLUGIN table to SData in order to get around a different bug with SData. I was able to add Plugin as a new SalesLogix entity to the entity model. Building the web platform with this new entity was not a problem, but when I went to enable the “Generate SData feed” on the new entity, the web platform would not build.
I would receive an error like this:
C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorApplication DataSagePlatformOutputsdataPlugin.cs(335,22): Cannot implicitly convert type ‘Sage.Common.Syndication.FeedAuthor’ to ‘string’.
Looking at that line in the PLugin.cs file in my build folder revealed this line of code:
public PluginEntry()
{
Author = new FeedAuthor {Name = Constants.FeedAuthor};
}
Turns out that the problem was the Plugin entity contained a property called Author. This was confusing the sdata build which attempts to create an SData feed property also called Author. I ended up removing the Author property from my entity definition since I did not need it, and presto! The SData feed built successfully.
