Dataverse Connector's "Return Full Metadata" Parameter in Power Automate
I stumbled across something interesting today whilst working on a Power Automate cloud flow. There's this "Return Full Metadata" parameter (with key in the code view x-ms-odata-metadata-full ) in the Dataverse connector that I'd never really paid attention to before. The official documentation describes it as "The header parameter to customer to opt-in returning full odata metadata in response." Not exactly the most enlightening explanation, is it? It doesn't tell you what kind of OData metadata we're talking about, and more importantly, it doesn't explain how this parameter actually behaves. What the Documentation Doesn't Tell You So naturally, I did what any curious developer would do - I set the parameter to "Yes" and ran the flow to see what would happen. The result? The output JSON looked exactly the same as before. This got me thinking. After a bit more experimentation, I discovered the real story behind this parameter: ...
