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

Summary

The goal of this chapter was to learn how the external API works and what it is capable of. We started by exploring it with simple scripts using the Python XML-RPC client, though the external API can be used from any programming language. The official documentation provides code examples for Java, PHP, and Ruby.

Then, we learned how to use XML-RPC calls to search for and read data, and then how to call any other method. We can, for example, create, update, and delete records.

Next, we introduced the OdooRPC library. It provides a layer on top of the RPC base library (XML-RPC or JSON-RPC) to provide a local API that's similar to the API that can be found on the server side. This lowers the learning curve, reduces programming mistakes, and makes it easier to copy code between server and client code.

With this, we have finished the chapters dedicated to the programming API and business logic. Now, it's time to look at views and the user interface. In the next...