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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Writing a Notes desktop application


Let's do something interesting with the RPC API. Odoo provides a simple app for notes. What if users could manage their personal notes directly from their computer's desktop? Let's write a simple Python application to do just that, as shown in the following screenshot:

For clarity, we will split it into two files: one dealing with interactions with the server backend, note_api.py, and another with the graphical user interface, note_gui.py.

Communication layer with Odoo

We will create a class to set up the connection and store its information. It should expose two methods: get() to retrieve task data and set() to create or update tasks.

Select a directory to host the application files and create the note_api.py file. We can start by adding the class constructor, as follows:

import xmlrpclib 
class NoteAPI(): 
    def __init__(self, srv, db, user, pwd): 
        common = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( 
            '%s/xmlrpc/2/common' % srv) 
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