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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

To get the most out of this book

Other than being familiar with programming, no particular knowledge is expected to be able to take advantage of this book.

Odoo is built using the Python programming language, so it is a good idea to have solid knowledge of it. We also chose to run Odoo on an Ubuntu host and will do some work on the command line, so it will help to be familiar with it.

To get the most out of this book, we recommend that you find complementary readings on the Python programming language, the Ubuntu/Debian Linux operating system, and the PostgreSQL database.

While we will run Odoo on an Ubuntu host (a popular cloud hosting option), we will provide guidance on how to set up our development environment on a Windows system using the WSL, available in Windows 10. Of course, working from an Ubuntu/Debian native system is also a good choice.

All the required software is freely available, and the instructions on where to find it will be given in the book's initial chapters.

Note

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is provided in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.