Odoo 10 Development Essentials电子书

Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Odoo Development

Setting up a host for the Odoo server

Provision for a Debian host

Creating a user account for Odoo

Installing Odoo from the source

Initializing a new Odoo database

Managing your databases

A word about Odoo product versions

More server configuration options

Odoo server configuration files

Changing the listening port

The database filter option

Managing server log messages

Developing from your workstation

Using a Linux text editor

Installing and configuring Samba

Activating the developer tools

Installing third-party modules

Finding community modules

Configuring the addons path

Updating the apps list

Summary

2. Building Your First Odoo Application

Essential concepts

Understanding applications and modules

Modifying and extending modules

Creating the module basic skeleton

A word about licenses

Adding to the addons path

Installing the new module

Upgrading a module

The server development mode

The model layer

Creating the data model

Adding automated tests

The view layer

Adding menu items

Creating the form view

Business document form views

Adding action buttons

Using groups to organize forms

The complete form view

Adding list and search views

The business logic layer

Adding business logic

Adding tests

Setting up access security

Testing access security

Adding access control security

Row-level access rules

Better describing the module

Summary

3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications

Adding sharing capabilities to the To-Do app

Extending models

Adding fields to a model

Modifying existing fields

Modifying model methods

Extending views

Extending the form view

Extending the tree and search views

More model inheritance mechanisms

Copying features with prototype inheritance

Embedding models using delegation inheritance

Adding the social network features

Modifying data

Modifying menu and action records

Modifying security record rules

Summary

4. Module Data

Understanding external identifiers

Finding external identifiers

Exporting and importing data

Exporting data

Importing data

Related records in CSV data files

Module data

Demonstration data

XML data files

The data noupdate attribute

Defining records in XML

Setting field values

Setting values using expressions

Setting values for relation fields

Shortcuts for frequently used models

Other actions in XML data files

Deleting records

Triggering functions and workflows

Summary

5. Models – Structuring the Application Data

Organizing application features into modules

Introducing the todo_ui module

Creating models

Model attributes

Models and Python classes

Transient and Abstract models

Inspecting existing models

Creating fields

Basic field types

Common field attributes

Special field names

Relationships between models

Many-to-one relationships

Many-to-many relationships

One-to-many inverse relationships

Hierarchic relationships

Reference fields using dynamic relationships

Computed fields

Searching and writing on computed fields

Storing computed fields

Related fields

Model Constraints

Summary

6. Views - Designing the User Interface

Defining the user interface with XML files

Menu items

Window actions

Context and domain

Context data

Domain expressions

The form views

Dealing with several views of the same type

Business document views

The header

The sheet

Title and subtitle

Smart buttons area

Grouping content in a form

Tabbed notebooks

View semantic components

Fields

Labels for fields

Relational fields

Field widgets

Buttons

Smart buttons

Dynamic views

On change events

Dynamic attributes

List views

Search views

Calendar views

Graph and pivot views

Other view types

Summary

7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes

Creating a wizard

The wizard model

The wizard form

The wizard business logic

Logging

Raising exceptions

Helper actions in wizards

Working with the ORM API

Method decorators

Overriding the ORM default methods

Methods for RPC and web client calls

The shell command

The server environment

Modifying the execution environment

Transactions and low-level SQL

Working with recordsets

Querying models

Singletons

Writing on records

Working with time and dates

Operations on recordsets

Manipulating recordsets

Using relational fields

Working with relational fields

Summary

8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code

Unit tests

Adding unit tests

Writing test cases

Setting up tests

Testing exceptions

Running tests

About YAML tests

Development tools

Server development options

Debugging

The Python debugger

A sample debugging session

Alternative Python debuggers

Printing messages and logging

Inspecting running processes

Summary

9. QWeb and Kanban Views

About kanban boards

Kanban views

Designing kanban views

Priority, kanban state, and color

Kanban card elements

The kanban card layout

Adding a kanban card option menu

Actions in kanban views

The QWeb templating language

The QWeb JavaScript evaluation context

Using t-attf for attributes string substitution

Using t-att for dynamic attributes

Using t-foreach for loops

Using t-if for conditional rendering

Using t-esc and t-raw to render values

Using t-set to set values on variables

Using t-call to insert other templates

More ways to use t-attf

Inheritance on kanban views

Custom CSS and JavaScript assets

Summary

10. Creating QWeb Reports

Installing wkhtmltopdf

Creating business reports

QWeb report templates

Presenting data in reports

Rendering images

Summary totals and running totals

Defining paper formats

Enabling language translation in reports

Reports based on custom SQL

Summary

11. Creating Website Frontend Features

Roadmap

Our first web page

Hello World!

Hello World! with a Qweb template

Extending web features

HelloCMS!

Building websites

Adding CSS and JavaScript assets

The to-do list controller

The to-do list template

The To-do Task detail page

Website forms

The form page

Access security and menu item

Adding custom logic

Summary

12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems

Setting up a Python client

Calling the Odoo API using XML-RPC

Opening an XML-RPC connection

Reading data from the server

Calling other methods

Writing a Notes desktop application

Communication layer with Odoo

Creating the GUI

Introducing the ERPpeek client

The ERPpeek API

The ERPpeek CLI

Summary

13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Available prebuilt packages

Installing dependencies

Preparing a dedicated system user

Installing from the source code

Setting up the configuration file

Multiprocessing workers

Setting up as a system service

Creating a systemd service

Creating an Upstart/sysvinit service

Checking the Odoo service from the command line

Using a reverse proxy

Setting up Nginx for reverse proxy

Enforcing HTTPS

Nginx optimizations

Long polling

Server and module updates

Summary