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Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

The ORM method decorators


In the Odoo Python code encountered so far, we can see that decorators, such as @api.multi, are frequently used in model methods. These are important for the ORM and allow it to give those methods specific uses.

Let's review the ORM decorators we have available and when each should be used.

Methods for recordsets – @api.multi

Most of the time, we want a custom method to perform some actions on a recordset. For this, we should use @api.multi, and in that case, the self argument will be the recordset to work with. The method's logic will usually include a for loop iterating on it. This is surely the most frequently used decorator.

Note

If no decorator is used on a model method, it will default to  @api.multi behavior.

Methods for singleton records – @api.one

In some cases, the method is prepared to work with a single record (a singleton). Here, we could use the  @api.one decorator that's still available, but announced as deprecated since Odoo 9. It wraps the decorated method...