Odoo 10 Development Essentials by Reis, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Odoo 10 Development Essentials Credits Foreword About the Author About the Reviewer www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

1. Getting Started with Odoo Development

Setting up a host for the Odoo server

Provision for a Debian host Creating a user account for Odoo

Installing Odoo from the source Initializing a new Odoo database

Managing your databases

A word about Odoo product versions More server configuration options

Odoo server configuration files Changing the listening port The database filter option Managing server log messages

Developing from your workstation

Using a Linux text editor Installing and configuring Samba Activating the developer tools

Installing third-party modules

Finding community modules Configuring the addons path Updating the apps list

Summary

2. Building Your First Odoo Application

Essential concepts

Understanding applications and modules Modifying and extending modules Creating the module basic skeleton A word about licenses Adding to the addons path Installing the new module Upgrading a module The server development mode

The model layer

Creating the data model Adding automated tests

The view layer

Adding menu items Creating the form view Business document form views Adding action buttons Using groups to organize forms The complete form view Adding list and search views

The business logic layer

Adding business logic Adding tests

Setting up access security

Testing access security Adding access control security Row-level access rules

Better describing the module Summary

3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications

Adding sharing capabilities to the To-Do app Extending models

Adding fields to a model Modifying existing fields Modifying model methods

Extending views

Extending the form view Extending the tree and search views

More model inheritance mechanisms

Copying features with prototype inheritance Embedding models using delegation inheritance Adding the social network features

Modifying data

Modifying menu and action records Modifying security record rules

Summary

4. Module Data

Understanding external identifiers

Finding external identifiers

Exporting and importing data

Exporting data Importing data Related records in CSV data files

Module data

Demonstration data

XML data files

The data noupdate attribute Defining records in XML

Setting field values Setting values using expressions Setting values for relation fields

Shortcuts for frequently used models Other actions in XML data files

Deleting records Triggering functions and workflows

Summary

5. Models – Structuring the Application Data

Organizing application features into modules

Introducing the todo_ui module

Creating models

Model attributes Models and Python classes Transient and Abstract models Inspecting existing models

Creating fields

Basic field types Common field attributes Special field names

Relationships between models

Many-to-one relationships Many-to-many relationships One-to-many inverse relationships Hierarchic relationships Reference fields using dynamic relationships

Computed fields

Searching and writing on computed fields Storing computed fields Related fields

Model Constraints Summary

6. Views - Designing the User Interface

Defining the user interface with XML files

Menu items Window actions

Context and domain

Context data Domain expressions

The form views

Dealing with several views of the same type Business document views

The header The sheet Title and subtitle Smart buttons area Grouping content in a form Tabbed notebooks

View semantic components

Fields

Labels for fields Relational fields Field widgets

Buttons Smart buttons

Dynamic views

On change events Dynamic attributes

List views Search views Calendar views Graph and pivot views Other view types Summary

7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes

Creating a wizard

The wizard model The wizard form The wizard business logic Logging Raising exceptions Helper actions in wizards

Working with the ORM API

Method decorators Overriding the ORM default methods Methods for RPC and web client calls The shell command The server environment Modifying the execution environment Transactions and low-level SQL

Working with recordsets

Querying models Singletons Writing on records Working with time and dates Operations on recordsets Manipulating recordsets Using relational fields Working with relational fields

Summary

8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code

Unit tests Adding unit tests Writing test cases Setting up tests Testing exceptions Running tests About YAML tests Development tools

Server development options Debugging

The Python debugger A sample debugging session Alternative Python debuggers Printing messages and logging

Inspecting running processes

Summary

9. QWeb and Kanban Views

About kanban boards

Kanban views

Designing kanban views

Priority, kanban state, and color Kanban card elements The kanban card layout Adding a kanban card option menu Actions in kanban views

The QWeb templating language

The QWeb JavaScript evaluation context Using t-attf for attributes string substitution Using t-att for dynamic attributes Using t-foreach for loops Using t-if for conditional rendering Using t-esc and t-raw to render values Using t-set to set values on variables Using t-call to insert other templates More ways to use t-attf

Inheritance on kanban views Custom CSS and JavaScript assets Summary

10. Creating QWeb Reports

Installing wkhtmltopdf Creating business reports QWeb report templates Presenting data in reports Rendering images Summary totals and running totals Defining paper formats Enabling language translation in reports Reports based on custom SQL Summary

11. Creating Website Frontend Features

Roadmap Our first web page

Hello World! Hello World! with a Qweb template Extending web features HelloCMS!

Building websites

Adding CSS and JavaScript assets The to-do list controller The to-do list template The To-do Task detail page

Website forms

The form page Access security and menu item Adding custom logic

Summary

12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems

Setting up a Python client Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC

Opening an XML-RPC connection Reading data from the server Calling other methods

Writing a Notes desktop application

Communication layer with Odoo Creating the GUI

Introducing the ERPpeek client

The ERPpeek API The ERPpeek CLI

Summary

13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Available prebuilt packages Installing dependencies

Preparing a dedicated system user Installing from the source code Setting up the configuration file

Multiprocessing workers

Setting up as a system service Creating a systemd service Creating an Upstart/sysvinit service Checking the Odoo service from the command line

Using a reverse proxy

Setting up Nginx for reverse proxy Enforcing HTTPS Nginx optimizations Long polling

Server and module updates Summary

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