WebAPI和OData订购

Question

I have a data model consisting of two entities

public class product 
{
     public int ID {get;set;}
     public string Name {get;set;}
}

public class category
{
    public int ID {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
    public IEnumerable<product> products {get;set;}
}

What I need to do: starting from category how can I sort by product name?

I've tried something like this:

api/categories?$orderby=?

Answer 1

If you query the Categories , you cannot order by Product name, simply because you can only order Categories by Category properties.

If you want to query the products of Category 1, for instance, you can search for api/categories(1)/products?$orderby=Name .