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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

More model inheritance mechanisms

The previous section discussed classic inheritance, which can be seen as an in-place extension. This is the most frequently used approach, but the Odoo framework also supports a few other extension mechanisms that are useful in other cases.

These are delegation inheritance, prototype inheritance, and the use of mixins:

  • Delegation inheritance embeds another model in the inheriting one. For example, a User record embeds a Partner record, so that a User record has all the fields available for the Partner records, plus the fields specific to the User records. It is used through the _inherits attribute.
  • Prototype inheritance creates a new model by copying the features from the inherited model and has a database table and data. It is not used often and it is never used in the Odoo-included add-on modules. It is used to set _inherit with the model to copy and the _name attribute with the identifier for the new model to be created.
  • Mixin...