Book Image

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

Configuring Odoo

Once Odoo is installed, the configuration file to be used by the production service needs to be prepared.

The next sub-section provides guidance on how to do this.

Setting up the configuration file

Configuration files are expected to be in the /etc system directory. So, the Odoo production configuration file will be stored at /etc/odoo/odoo.conf.

To make it easier to see all of the available options, a default configuration file can be generated. This should be done by the user that will run the service.

If not done yet, create a session for the odoo user and activate the virtual environment:

$ sudo su - odoo
$ python3 -m venv /opt/odoo/env15

Now, the following command can be used to create a default configuration file:

(env15) $ odoo -c /opt/odoo/odoo.conf --save --stop-after-init

In the previous command, the -c option sets the location of the configuration file. If not given, it defaults to ~/.odoorc. The --save option writes the options...