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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 OdooRPC library


Another relevant client library to be considered is OdooRPC. It is a more modern client library that uses the JSON-RPC protocol instead of XML-RPC. The fact is that the Odoo official web client uses JSON-RPC, and the original XML-RPC is supported mostly for backward compatibility.

OdooRPC is now under the Odoo Community Association umbrella and is being actively maintained. You can learn more about it at https://github.com/OCA/odoorpc.

The way the Odoo API is used is not very different whether you are using JSON-RPC or XML-RPC. So, you will see that, while some details differ, the way these different client libraries are used is not very different.

OdooRPC sets up a server connection when a new odoorpc.ODOO object is created, and we should then use the ODOO.login() method to create a user session. Just like on the server side, the session has an env attribute with the session's environment, including the user ID, uid, and the context.

We can use OdooRPC to provide...