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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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Using the server development options

Odoo also provides a server-side development mode, which can be enabled by using the --dev=all option.

Development mode enables features to speed up the development cycle:

  • Changes to Python code are automatically reloaded when a code file is saved, avoiding a manual server restart.
  • Changes to View definitions have an instant effect, avoiding manual module upgrades (note that a browser page reload is still needed).

The --dev=all option will bring up the pdb Python debugger when an exception is raised. It is useful for doing a postmortem analysis of a server error. More details on the Python debugger commands can be found at https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html#debugger-commands.

The --dev option accepts a comma-separated list of options, although the all option will be suitable most of the time. By default, the Python debugger, pdb, is used. This debugger is a bit terse, and other options are available. The supported...

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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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