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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Module data


Modules use data files to load their configurations into the database, default data, and demonstration data. This can be done using both CSV and XML files. For completeness, the YAML file format can also be used, but it is very rare for it to be used to load data; therefore, we won't be discussing it.

CSV files used by modules are exactly the same as those we have seen and used for the import feature. When using them in modules, one additional restriction is that the filename must match the name of the model to which the data will be loaded so the system can infer the model into which the data should be imported.

A common usage of data CSV files is for accessing security definitions, loaded into the ir.model.access model. They usually use CSV files that are named ir.model.access.csv.

Demonstration data

Odoo addon modules may install demonstration data, and it is considered good practice to do so. This is useful to provide usage examples for a module and datasets to be used in tests...