Is there any way I can get only count of the data in response payload without any value array?
I am using ODataV4.0 with Webapi 2.2.
Currently it returns all the values and count when I query something like:
http://odata/People?$count=true
I just need something like "@odata.count":1, "value":[]
or without "value"
.
Is the only way to have function for this job?
Set the $top to zero and $count to true.
For example: http://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers?$count=true&$top=0
returns the count but no results
{"@odata.context":"http://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/$metadata#Customers","@odata.count":91,"value":[]}
Count is calculated after applying the $filter, but without factoring in $top and $skip.
informs you that there are 11 results where the Country is 'Germany', but without returning any records in the response.