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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

Development tools


There are a few techniques developers should learn to aid them in their work. Early in this book, we introduced the Developer Mode user interface. We also have a server option available, providing some developer-friendly features. We will be describing this in more detail next. After that, we will discuss another relevant topic for developers: how to debug server-side code.

Server development options

The Odoo server provides the --dev option to enable some developer features to speed up our development cycle, such as:

  • Entering the debugger when an exception is found in an addon module
  • Reloading Python code automatically once a Python file is saved, avoiding a manual server restart
  • Reading view definitions directly from XML files, avoiding manual module upgrades

The --dev option accepts a comma-separated list of options, and the all option will be suitable most of the time. We can also specify the debugger we prefer to use. By default, the Python debugger, pdb, is used. Some people...