Common Annotations

Find here a reference and glossary of common annotations intrinsically supported by the CDS compiler and runtimes.

Learn more about the syntax of annotations.

• General Purpose
• Access Control
• Input Validation
• Services / APIs
• Persistence
• OData

General Purpose

Annotation	Description	Alternatives
@title		Common.Label
@description		Core.Description

Access Control

Annotation	Description
@readonly	see Input Validation
@insertonly	see Generic Handlers
@restrict	see Authorization
@requires	see Authorization

Input Validation

Annotation	Description
@readonly	see Input Validation
@mandatory	see Input Validation
@assert.unique	see Input Validation
@assert.integrity	see Input Validation
@assert.target	see Input Validation
@assert.format	see Input Validation
@assert.range	see Input Validation
@assert.notNull	see Input Validation

Services / APIs

Annotation	Description
@path	see Services
@impl	see Reuse & Compose
@odata.etag	see Providing Services
@cds.autoexpose	see Providing Services
@cds.api.ignore	see OData
@cds.query.limit	see Providing Services
@cds.localized	see Localized Data
@cds.valid.from/to	see Temporal Data
@cds.search	see Search Capabilities

Persistence

Annotation	Description
@cds.persistence.exists	tells compile.to.sql this is created otherwise
@cds.persistence.table	tells compile.to.sql to create a table, not a view
@cds.persistence.skip	tells the compiler, this entity shall not exist in database at all
@cds.persistence.mock	false excludes this entity from automatic mocking
@cds.on.insert	see Providing Services
@cds.on.update	see Providing Services

OData

Learn more about OData Annotations in CDS.

Shortcuts:

Annotation	Description
@ValueList.entity	see Domain Modeling
@odata.Type	see OData
@odata.MaxLength	see OData
@odata.Precision	see OData
@odata.Scale	see OData
@odata.singleton	see OData

Intrinsically supported OData Annotations:

Annotation	Description
@Core.Computed	see Providing Services
@Core.Immutable	see Providing Services
@Core.MediaType	see Media Data
@Core.IsMediaType	see Media Data
@Core.IsUrl	see Media Data
@Capabilities...	see Fiori
@Common.FieldControl	see Input Validation)