Introducing the OdooRPC library

Another relevant client library to be considered is OdooRPC. It is a more modern client library that uses the JSON-RPC protocol instead of XML-RPC. The fact is that the Odoo official web client uses JSON-RPC, and the original XML-RPC is supported mostly for backward compatibility.

OdooRPC is now under the Odoo Community Association umbrella and is being actively maintained. You can learn more about it at https://github.com/OCA/odoorpc.

The way the Odoo API is used is not very different whether you are using JSON-RPC or XML-RPC. So, you will see that, while some details differ, the way these different client libraries are used is not very different.

OdooRPC sets up a server connection when a new odoorpc.ODOO object is created, and we should then use the ODOO.login() method to create a user session. Just like on the server side, the session has an env attribute with the session's environment, including the user ID, uid, and the context.

We can use OdooRPC to provide...