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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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Learning about the available developer tools

There are a few tools to ease developers' work. The web interface's Developer Mode, which we introduced earlier in this book, is one of them. A server developer mode option is also available that provides some developer-friendly features. It will be explained in more detail next. After that, we will discuss how to debug code on the server.

Server development options

The Odoo server provides a --dev option, which enables developer features to speed up the development cycle, such as the following:

  • Entering the debugger when an exception is found in an add-on module. This is done by setting a debugger. pdb is the default one.
  • Reloading Python code automatically when a Python code file is saved, avoiding a manual server restart. This can be enabled with the reload option.
  • Reading view definitions directly from XML files, avoiding manual module upgrades. This can be enabled with the xml option.
  • A Python debugging...
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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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