Logging in to/connecting Odoo with JSON-RPC

Odoo provides one more type of RPC API: JSON-RPC. As its name suggests, JSON-RPC works in the JSON format and uses the jsonrpc 2.0 specification. In this recipe, we will see how you can log in with JSON-RPC. The Odoo web client itself uses JSON-RPC to fetch data from the server.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will perform user authentication through JSON-RPC to check whether the given credentials are valid. Make sure you have installed the my_hostel module and that the server is running on http://localhost:8017.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to perform user authentication through RPC:

1. Add the jsonrpc_authenticate.py file. You can place this file anywhere you want because the RPC program will work independently.
2. Add the following code to the file:

   import json
   import random
   import requests
   server_url = 'http://localhost:8017'
   db_name = 'cookbook_17e'
   username = 'admin'
   password...