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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to work with model data to perform CRUD operations—that is, creating, reading, updating, and deleting data—and all the techniques needed to make use of and manipulate recordsets. This provides the foundation needed for us to implement our business logic and automation code.

To experiment with the ORM API, we used the Odoo interactive shell. We ran our commands in an environment accessible through self.env. The environment is similar to the one provided in the model method, and so it is a useful playground for exploring the Odoo API.

The environment allows us to query data from any Odoo model that is made available as a recordset. We learned about the different ways to create recordsets and then how to read the data provided, including special data types such as dates, binary values, and relational fields.

Another fundamental capability in Odoo is to write back data. In this chapter, we also learned how to create new records...