The OCA odoorpc library
The Odoo Community Association (OCA) provides a Python library called odoorpc. This is available at https://github.com/OCA/odoorpc. The odoorpc library provides a user-friendly syntax from which to access Odoo data through RPC. It provides a similar a syntax similar to that of the server. In this recipe, we will see how you can use the odoorpc library to perform operations through RPC.
Getting ready
The odoorpc library is registered on the Python package (PyPI) index. In order to use the library, you need to install it using the following command. You can use this in a separate virtual environment if you want:
pip install OdooRPC
In this recipe, we will perform some basic operations using the odoorpc library. We will use the hostel.room model to perform these operations. Make sure you have installed the my_hostel module and that the server is running on http://localhost:8017.
How to do it...
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