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Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Implementing the client app XML-RPC interface

Let's start by implementing the Library book catalog client application.

This can be split into two files: one for the Odoo backend interface containing the server backend, library_xmlrpc.py, and another for the user interface, library.py. This will allow us to use alternative implementations for the backend interface.

Starting with the Odoo backend component, a LibraryAPI class will be used to set up the connection with the Odoo server that supports methods that are needed to interact with Odoo. The methods to implement are as follows:

  • search_read(<title>) to search for book data by title
  • create(<title>) to create a book with a specific title
  • write(<id>, <title>) to update a book title using the book ID
  • unlink(<id>) to delete a book using its ID

Choose a directory to host the application files in and create the library_xmlrpc.py file. Start by adding the class constructor...

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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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