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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems

The Odoo server also provides an external API, which is used by its web client and is also available for other client applications. In this chapter, we will learn how to use the Odoo external API from our own client programs, using Odoo's external API.

To avoid introducing additional languages the reader might not be familiar with, here we will focus on Python-based clients, although the techniques to handle the RPC calls also applies to other programming languages.

We will describe how to use the Odoo RPC calls, and then use that knowledge to build a simple To‑Do desktop app using Python.

Finally, we will introduce the ERPpeek client. It is an Odoo client library that can be used as a convenient abstraction layer for the Odoo RPC calls, and is also a command-line client for Odoo, allowing you to remotely manage Odoo instances.