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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is fast becoming the reference open source platform for business applications thanks to the fact that it provides the infrastructure needed for developers to deliver software solutions for any business process quickly. Odoo's layered module approach makes it particularly effective for combining and extending features. This updated fifth edition is a tutorial-style introduction to essential Odoo development topics. The book starts by covering the development essentials for building business applications and takes you through Odoo installation and configuration, gradually transitioning from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You'll then learn how to develop your first Odoo application, while covering topics such as models and views. Later chapters will get you up to speed with using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress, you’ll get equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features available in Odoo 12 and beyond, such as in-memory ORM and computed writable fields. Finally, you’ll gain insights into building business logic and using the Odoo API to integrate with various applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build business apps from scratch using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
6
Section 2: Models
9
Section 3: Business Logic
13
Section 4: Views
18
Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

Installing Odoo from source code

While Odoo provides Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL system packages, installing from source code is a popular option due to the flexibility and control it provides.

Using source code provides better control over what is deployed and makes it easier to manage changes and fixes once in production. For example, it allows us to tie the deployment process to a Git workflow.

At this point, the Odoo system dependencies are already installed, and the database is ready to use. Now, the Odoo source code can be downloaded and installed, along with the required Python dependencies.

Let's see how to download the Odoo source code.

Downloading the Odoo source code

Sooner or later, your server will need upgrades and patches. A version control repository can be of great help when this time comes. We use git to get our code from a repository, just like we did when installing the development environment.

Next, we'll impersonate the odoo user...