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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805124276

Length 774 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Business Management

Authors (6):

Holger Brunn

Husen Daudi

Daniel Reis

Jay Vora

Parth Gajjar

Alexandre Fayolle

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances

3. Chapter 3: Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

4. Chapter 4: Application Models

5. Chapter 5: Basic Server-Side Development

6. Chapter 6: Managing Module Data

7. Chapter 7: Debugging Modules

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

9. Chapter 9: Backend Views

10. Chapter 10: Security Access

11. Chapter 11: Internationalization

12. Chapter 12: Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing

13. Chapter 13: Web Server Development

14. Chapter 14: CMS Website Development

15. Chapter 15: Web Client Development

16. Chapter 16: The Odoo Web Library (OWL)

17. Chapter 17: In-App Purchasing with Odoo

18. Chapter 18: Automated Test Cases

19. Chapter 19: Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

20. Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

21. Chapter 21: Performance Optimization

22. Chapter 22: Point of Sale

23. Chapter 23: Managing Emails in Odoo

24. Chapter 24: Managing the IoT Box

25. Chapter 25: Web Studio

26. Index

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The auto-reload and --dev options

In the previous chapters, we saw how to add a model, fields, and views. Whenever we make changes to Python files, we need to restart the server to apply those changes. If we make changes in XML files, we need to restart the server and update the module to reflect those changes in the user interface. If you are developing a large application, this can be time-consuming and frustrating. Odoo provides a command-line option, --dev, to overcome these issues. The --dev option has several possible values, and, in this recipe, we will see each of them.

Getting ready

Install inotify or watchdog in your developer environment with the following command in the shell. Without inotify or watchdog, the auto-reload feature will not work:

$ pip3 install inotify
$ pip3 install watchdog

How to do it...

To enable the dev option, you need to use --dev=value from the command line. Possible values for this option are all, reload, pudb|wdb|ipdb|pdb, qweb, werkzeug...