Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition电子书

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Odoo 11 Development Essentials Third Edition

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Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts

The Odoo architecture

The Developer mode

Introducing the Library project

Creating a work database

Enabling the developer tools

Adding a field to an existing Model

Adding Menus, Models, and Views

Creating menus

Creating a Custom Model

Creating Views

Configuring access control security

About Odoo base Models

Summary

Installing and Organizing the Development Environment

Setting up a host for the Odoo server

Using a virtual machine

Installing a Linux server

Installing Odoo from source

Initializing a new Odoo database

Managing Odoo 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 a remote workstation

Using a Linux text editor

Installing and configuring Samba

Installing additional modules

Finding community modules

Configuring the addons path

Updating the apps list

Summary

Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview

Creating a new addon module

Creating the module's basic skeleton

Adding an icon

A word about licenses

Discovering and installing new modules

Adding to the addons path

Installing the new module

Upgrading a module

The server development mode

The model layer

Creating the data model

Extending existing models

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

Extending views

The business logic layer

Adding business logic

Extending Python methods

Adding automated tests

Testing business logic

Testing access security

Setting up access security

Adding access control security

Row-level access rules

Web pages and controllers

Summary

Models – Structuring the Application Data

Organizing application features into modules

Introducing the todo_stage 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

Extending models

Adding fields to a model

Modifying existing fields

Relationships between models

Many-to-one relationships

Many-to-many relationships

One-to-many inverse relationships

Hierarchical relationships

Dynamic relationships using Reference fields

Computed fields

Searching and writing to computed fields

Storing computed fields

Related fields

Model constraints

More model inheritance mechanisms

Copying features with prototype inheritance

Embedding models using delegation inheritance

Summary

Import, Export, and 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 noupdate data 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

Modifying data

Summary

The ORM API – Handling Application Data

Understanding the ORM decorators

Record handling decorators

Specific purpose decorators

Using the ORM built-in methods

Methods for writing model data

Methods for web client use over RPC

Methods for data import and export

Methods for the user interface

The Mail and Social features API

Message subtypes

Posting messages

Adding followers

Summary

Business 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

The shell command

The server environment

Modifying the execution environment

Transactions and low-level SQL

Context and domain

Context data

Domain expressions

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

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 To-Do client application

Communication layer with Odoo

Creating the CLI

Introducing the ERPpeek client

The ERPpeek API

The ERPpeek CLI

Introducing the OdooRPC library

Summary

Backend Views – Design the User Interface

Defining the user interface with XML files

Menu items

Window actions

The form views

Dealing with several views of the same type

Business document views

The header

The document 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

Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

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

Dynamic attributes by string substitution – t-attf

Dynamic attributes by expressions – t-att

Loops – t-foreach

Conditionals – t-if

Rendering values – t-esc and t-raw

Set values on variables – t-set

Call and reuse other templates – t-call

Dynamic attributes using dicts and lists

Inheritance on Kanban views

Custom CSS and JavaScript assets

Summary

Reports and Server-Side QWeb

Installing wkhtmltopdf

Creating business reports

QWeb report templates

Presenting data in reports

Rendering images

Report totals

Defining paper formats

Enabling language translation in reports

Reports based on custom SQL

Summary

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

Accessing the security and menu item

Adding custom logic

Summary

Debugging and Automated Tests

Unit tests

Adding unit tests

Setting up tests

Writing test cases

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

Killing running processes

Summary

Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

Available prebuilt packages

Installing dependencies

Preparing a dedicated system user

Installing from the source code

Setting up the configuration file

Multiprocessing workers

Setting up Odoo 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 as a reverse proxy

Enforcing HTTPS

Nginx optimizations

Long polling

Server and module updates

Summary

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