You're reading from Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Pages 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring the Odoo external API

Some familiarity with the Odoo external API should be gained before we implement the client app. The following sections explore the XML-RPC API using a Python interpreter.

Using XML-RPC to connect to the Odoo external API

The simplest way to access the Odoo server is by using XML-RPC. The xmlrpc library, from Python standard library, can be used for this.

Remember that the application being developed is a client that connects to a server. So, a running Odoo server instance is needed for the client to connect to. The code examples will assume that an Odoo server instance is running on the same machine, http://localhost:8069, but any reachable URL can be used if the server you wish to use is running on a different machine.

The Odoo xmlrpc/2/common endpoint exposes public methods, and these can be accessed without a login. These can be used to inspect the server version and check login credentials. Let's use the xmlrpc library to explore...