OData

Out-of-the-box Business Central APIs often use complex types. Addresses on entities and documents, line details, units of measures, journal dimensions, these are just a few examples. There may be more. A typical instance of a complex type looks like this:

The question is: can you do something like this in your own custom APIs?

And the answer is: yes and no.

Let’s start with the “yes” part of the answer.

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