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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

Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC


The simplest method to access the server is using XML-RPC. We can use the xmlrpclib library from Python's standard library for this. Remember that we are programming a client in order to connect to a server, so we need an Odoo server instance running to connect to. In our examples, we will assume that an Odoo server instance is running on the same machine (localhost), but you can use any reachable IP address or server name, if the server is running on a different machine.

Opening an XML-RPC connection

Let's make first contact with the Odoo external API. Start a Python 3 console and type in the following:

>>> from xmlrpc import client
>>> srv = 'http://localhost:8069'
>>> common = client.ServerProxy('%s/xmlrpc/2/common' % srv)
>>> common.version()
{'protocol_version': 1, 'server_serie': '11.0', 'server_version': '11.0', 'server_version_info': [11, 0, 0, 'final', 0, '']}

Here, we import the xmlrpc.client library and then set...