Our goal here was to learn to write the interface between an external application and the Odoo server, and this was done in the previous section. But it would be a shame not to go the extra step and actually make it available to the end user.
To keep the setup as simple as possible, we will use Python's built-in features to implement the command-line application. Since it is part of the standard library, it does not require any additional installation.
Now, alongside the library_api.py file, create a new library.py file. It will first import Python's command-line argument parser and then the LibraryAPI class, as shown in the following code:
from argparse import ArgumentParser from library_api import LibraryAPI
Next, we describe the commands the argument parser will expect; there are four commands:
- Search and list books
- Add a book
- Set (change) a book title
- Delete a book
This is the code for adding them to the command-line parser:
parser = ArgumentParser() parser...