The Odoo server also provides an external API, which is used by its web client and is also available for other client applications. In this chapter, we will learn how to use the Odoo external API from our own client programs, using Odoo's external API.
To avoid introducing additional languages the reader might not be familiar with, here we will focus on Python-based clients, although the techniques to handle the RPC calls also applies to other programming languages.
We will describe how to use the Odoo RPC calls, and then use that knowledge to build a simple To‑Do desktop app using Python.
Finally, we will introduce the ERPpeek client. It is an Odoo client library that can be used as a convenient abstraction layer for the Odoo RPC calls, and is also a command-line client for Odoo, allowing you to remotely manage...
