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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
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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.

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Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Daniel Reis
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Odoo Development
Getting Started with Odoo Development
Setting up a host for the Odoo server
Installing Odoo from the source
Initializing a new Odoo database
A word about Odoo product versions
More server configuration options
Developing from your workstation
Installing third-party modules
Summary
2
Building Your First Odoo Application
Building Your First Odoo Application
Essential concepts
The model layer
The view layer
The business logic layer
Setting up access security
Better describing the module
Summary
3
Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications
Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications
Adding sharing capabilities to the To-Do app
Extending models
Extending views
More model inheritance mechanisms
Modifying data
Summary
4
Module Data
Module Data
Understanding external identifiers
Exporting and importing data
Module data
XML data files
Summary
5
Models – Structuring the Application Data
Models – Structuring the Application Data
Organizing application features into modules
Creating models
Creating fields
Relationships between models
Computed fields
Model Constraints
Summary
6
Views - Designing the User Interface
Views - Designing the User Interface
Defining the user interface with XML files
Context and domain
The form views
View semantic components
Dynamic views
List views
Search views
Calendar views
Graph and pivot views
Other view types
Summary
7
ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes
ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes
Creating a wizard
Working with the ORM API
Working with recordsets
Summary
8
Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code
Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code
Unit tests
Adding unit tests
Writing test cases
Setting up tests
Testing exceptions
Running tests
About YAML tests
Development tools
Summary
9
QWeb and Kanban Views
QWeb and Kanban Views
About kanban boards
Designing kanban views
The QWeb templating language
Inheritance on kanban views
Custom CSS and JavaScript assets
Summary
10
Creating QWeb Reports
Creating QWeb Reports
Installing wkhtmltopdf
Creating business reports
QWeb report templates
Presenting data in reports
Rendering images
Summary totals and running totals
Defining paper formats
Enabling language translation in reports
Reports based on custom SQL
Summary
11
Creating Website Frontend Features
Creating Website Frontend Features
Roadmap
Our first web page
Building websites
Website forms
Summary
12
External API – Integrating with Other Systems
External API – Integrating with Other Systems
Setting up a Python client
Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC
Writing a Notes desktop application
Introducing the ERPpeek client
Summary
13
Deployment Checklist – Going Live
Deployment Checklist – Going Live
Available prebuilt packages
Installing dependencies
Multiprocessing workers
Using a reverse proxy
Server and module updates
Summary

Summary

Our goal for this chapter was to learn how the external API works and what it is capable of. We started exploring it using a simple Python XML-RPC client, but the external API can be used from any programming language. In fact, the official docs provide code examples for Java, PHP, and Ruby.

There are a number of libraries to handle XML-RPC or JSON-RPC, some generic and some specific for use with Odoo. We tried not to point out any libraries in particular, except for erppeek, since it is not only a proven wrapper for the Odoo/OpenERP XML-RPC but because it is also an invaluable tool for remote server management and inspection.

Until now, we used our Odoo server instances for development and tests. But to have a production grade server, there are additional security and optimization configurations that need to be done. In the next chapter, we will focus on them.

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