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Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using the ORM built-in methods


The decorators discussed in the previous section allow us to add certain features to our models, such as implementing validations and automatic computations.

The ORM provides methods to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on our Model data. We will now explore these write operations and how they can be extended to support custom logic.

To read data, the main methods provided are search() and browse() and will be discussed in Chapter 7, Recordsets - Working with Model Data.

Methods for writing model data

The ORM provides three methods for the three basic write operations, shown as follows:

  • <Model>.create(values) creates a new record on the model. It returns the created record.
  • <Recordset>.write(values) updates field values on the recordset. It returns nothing.
  • <Recordset>.unlink() deletes the records from the database. It returns nothing.

 

 

The values argument is a dictionary, mapping field names to values to write. The methods...