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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

Odoo v14 introduced a new JavaScript framework called OWL (short for Odoo Web Library). OWL is a component-based UI framework and uses QWeb templates for structure. OWL is very fast compared to Odoo's legacy widget system and introduces tons of new features, including hooks, reactivity, the autoinstantiation of subcomponents, and more besides. In this chapter, we will learn how to use an OWL component to generate interactive UI elements. We will start from the minimal OWL component and then we will learn about the component's life cycle. Finally, we will create a new field widget for the form view. In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating an OWL component
  • Managing user actions in an OWL component
  • Making OWL components reactive
  • Understanding the OWL component life cycle
  • Adding an OWL field to the form view

    Note

    The following question may occur to you: Why is Odoo not using some well-known JavaScript...