OData and FileMaker terminology

This guide uses FileMaker terminology where possible. For clarity, the OData term is sometimes used along with the FileMaker term. The following table shows equivalent terms and definitions.

OData term	FileMaker term
entity	record
entity set	table
entity container	group of fields that is not necessarily a record (such as a database name and URL)
collection of entity containers	list of a group of fields (for example, a list of database names)
property	field
path segment	value between two slash characters (in a URL)
raw value	a binary value that is a string of bytes rather than a human-readable structured JSON or Atom value