1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment
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
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Easy installation of Odoo from source
- Managing Odoo environments using the
startcommand - Managing Odoo server databases
- Storing the instance configuration in a file
- Activating the Odoo developer tools
- Updating Odoo from source
There are lots of ways to set up an Odoo development environment. This chapter proposes one of these, although you will certainly find a number of other tutorials on the web explaining other approaches. Keep in mind that this chapter is about a development environment, which has different requirements from a production environment, covered in Chapter 16, Server Deployment.
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