odata - combining $expand and $select

Question

In odata v4.0 is there an option for combining $expand and $select together?

I have a scenario wherein I'm trying to get specific columns in productItemChoices and item. The below query will give you all the columns in productItemChoices. I only need one column in the productItemChoices

odata/Products(08f80b45-68a9-4a9f-a516-556e69e6bd58)?$expand=productItemChoices($expand=item($select=name))

Answer 1

in the select, you can use the entity/attribute to select specific attributes of expanded entities:

$select=productItemChoices/columnyouwant

I'm not sure about the relationships of the entities in your query. When expanding deeply, I have used the following syntax (without the parentheses) - In the following, I'm assuming that the Products relate to productItemChoices and productItemChoices have item

$expand=productItemChoices, productItemChoices/item

Then, to select

$select=productItemChoices/productItemChoicesGuid, productItemChoices/item/name

Obviously, if the relationships are different, you'll need to change it some

Answer 2

After going through a lot of time on this, I finally got the answer. We can nest select within expand using ; as a separator, something like

odata/Products(8)?$expand=choices($select=col1,col2;$expand=item($select=name))

This is documented in the OData v4 $expand documentation. The documentation also lists other useful examples such as

Categories?$expand=Products($filter=DiscontinuedDate eq null)
Categories?$expand=Products/$count($search=blue)