Odoo Development Cookbook

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Odoo Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

What you need for this book

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment

Introduction

Easy installation of Odoo from source

Managing Odoo environments using the start command

Managing Odoo server databases

Storing the instance configuration in a file

Activating the Odoo developer tools

Updating Odoo from source

Chapter 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances

Introduction

Configuring the addons path

Updating the addon modules list

Standardizing your instance directory layout

Installing and upgrading local addon modules

Installing addon modules from GitHub

Applying changes to addons

Applying and trying proposed pull requests

Chapter 3. Creating Odoo Modules

Introduction

Creating and installing a new addon module

Completing the addon module manifest

Organizing the addon module file structure

Adding models

Adding Menu Items and Views

Using scaffold to create a module

Chapter 4. Application Models

Introduction

Defining the Model representation and order

Adding data fields to a model

Using a float field with configurable precision

Adding a monetary field to a Model

Adding relational fields to a Model

Adding a hierarchy to a Model

Adding constraint validations to a Model

Adding computed fields to a Model

Exposing Related fields stored in other models

Adding dynamic relations using Reference fields

Adding features to a Model using inheritance

Using Abstract Models for reusable Model features

Using Delegation inheritance to copy features to another Model

Chapter 5. Basic Server Side Development

Introduction

Defining model methods and use the API decorators

Reporting errors to the user

Obtaining an empty recordset for a different model

Creating new records

Updating values of recordset records

Searching for records

Combining recordsets

Filtering recordsets

Traversing recordset relations

Extending the business logic defined in a Model

Extending write() and create()

Customizing how records are searched

Chapter 6. Advanced Server Side Development Techniques

Introduction

Change the user performing an action

Call a method with a modified context

Execute raw SQL queries

Write a wizard to guide the user

Define onchange methods

Call onchange methods on the server side

Port old API code to the new API

Chapter 7. Debugging and Automated Testing

Introduction

Producing server logs to help debug methods

Using the Odoo shell to interactively call methods

Using the Python debugger to trace method execution

Writing tests for your module using YAML

Writing tests for your module using Python unit tests

Running server tests

Using the Odoo Community Association maintainer quality tools

Chapter 8. Backend Views

Introduction

Adding a menu item and window action

Having an action open a specific view

Adding content and widgets to a form view

Adding buttons to forms

Passing parameters to forms and actions: Context

Defining filters on record lists: Domain

List views

Search views

Changing existing views: View inheritance

Document-style forms

Dynamic form elements using attrs