Need single-valued navigation properties in OData for lookups

Question

I have some lookups and need single-valued navigation properties for the same.

**Ex. lookup name: ownerid and its Odata name: ****@odata.bind

While updating I'm getting below error:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "0x80048d19",
        "message": "Error identified in Payload provided by the user for Entity :'', For more information on this error please follow this help link https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2195293  ---->  InnerException : Microsoft.OData.ODataException: An undeclared property 'ra_apstrategicaccountmanager' which only has property annotations in the payload but no property value was found in the payload. In OData, only declared navigation properties and declared named streams can be represented as properties without values.
}
}

I have below lookup names and need single-valued navigation properties in OData for the same.

   ra_apstrategicaccountmanager, ra_emeastrategicaccountmanager, ra_lastrategicaccountmanager, ra_nastrategicaccountmanager

Answer 1

The error message you are encountering is indicating that the properties you are trying to use as single-valued navigation properties are not declared in the OData model.

In OData, only declared navigation properties and declared named streams can be represented as properties without values. To resolve this issue, you need to declare these properties in the OData model.

You can find more information on how to declare navigation properties in OData in the following link: https://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata03/os/complete/part3-csdl/odata-v4.0-errata03-os-part3-csdl-complete.html#_Toc453752347

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