What you need for this book
by Daniel Reis, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn
Odoo Development Cookbook
- Odoo Development Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Odoo Development Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment
- 2. Managing Odoo Server Instances
- 3. Creating Odoo Modules
- 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
- 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
- 6. Advanced Server Side Development Techniques
- 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
- 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
- Embedded views
- Kanban views
- Show kanban cards in columns according to their state
- Calendar views
- Graph and pivot views
- QWeb reports
- 9. Module Data
- 10. Access Security
- 11. Internationalization
- 12. Automation and Workflows
- 13. Web Server Development
- 14. CMS Website Development
- 15. Web Client Development
- 16. Server Deployment
- Index
The set up recipes in Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, and Chapter 15, Web Client Development, expect that you are working on a server running Debian GNU/Linux, or a derivative distribution such as Ubuntu, in a reasonably up-to-date release. If you are running another distribution, things should be fairly straightforward; the main differences should be in the names of the packages to install, and possibly the location of the configuration files of PostgreSQL and Nginx.
If your workstation is running Windows or MacOS, we advise you to set up a Debian virtual machine to work with Odoo. While it is possible to develop natively on Windows or Mac, having a development environment as close as possible to the deployment environment is a good way to avoid nasty surprises and GNU/Linux is the recommended deployment platform for Odoo.
Is there a recommended Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Odoo? This is a frequently asked question by newcomers. The best answer is to use whatever tool you are familiar with. Popular choices include Eclipse or PyCharm, but a very high number of experimented developers, including the core Odoo developers, use just a programming text editor such as vim, GNU emacs, or Sublime Text to have syntax highlighting and useful helpers such as automatic indentation, while using the Python debugger for debugging. It is recommended to start with the basic tools because IDEs have a tendency to hide complexity you should be familiar with in order to fix the harder problems.
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