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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

Working with recordsets

A recordset is a collection of records, and Python business logic frequently needs to use them. There are several operations that can be performed on recordsets, such as mapping and filtering. We can also compose new recordsets by adding or removing records. Other common operations are inspecting the contents of a recordset to check if a particular record is there or not, for example.

Changes in Odoo 10

Since Odoo 10, recordset manipulation has preserved the record order. This is unlike previous Odoo versions, where recordset manipulation was not guaranteed to preserve the record order, although addition and slicing maintained the record order.

Recordset operations

Recordsets have a few functions available to perform useful actions on them, such as sorting or filtering records.

These are the supported functions and attributes:

  • The recordset.ids attribute returns a list with the IDs of the recordset elements.
  • The recordset.ensure_one...