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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

Introducing the ERPpeek client


ERPpeek is a versatile tool that can be used both as an interactive Command-line Interface (CLI) and as a Python library, with a more convenient API than the one provided by the xmlrpc library. It is available from the PyPi index and can be installed with the following:

$ pip3 install --user erppeek

More details about ERPpeek can be found at https://github.com/tinyerp/erppeek.

The ERPpeek API

The ERPpeek library provides a programming interface, which is similar to the programming interface we have for the server-side code. Our point here is to provide a glimpse into what the ERPpeek library has to offer, and not to provide a full explanation of all its features.

We can start by reproducing our first steps with the xmlrpc library using the erppeek. Start a Python 3 session and try the following:

>>> import erppeek
>>> api = erppeek.Client('http://localhost:8069', 'todo','admin', 'admin')
>>> api.common.version()
>>> api.count(...