You're reading from Odoo 14 Development Cookbook Rapidly build, customize, and manage secure and efficient business apps using Odoo's latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200319

Length 784 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (4):

Parth Gajjar

Alexandre Fayolle

Holger Brunn

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances FREE CHAPTER

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

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Chapter 20: Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

The Odoo server supports Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), which means that you can connect Odoo instances from external applications, an example being if you want to show the status of a delivery order in an Android application, which is written in Java. Here, you can fetch the delivery status from Odoo via RPC. With the Odoo RPC API, you can perform any CRUD operations on a database. Odoo RPC is not limited to CRUD operations; you can also invoke public methods of any model. Of course, you will need to have proper access to rights to perform these operations because RPC respects all of the access rights and record rules you have defined in your database. Consequently, it is very safe to use because the RPC respects all access rights and record rules. Odoo RPC is not platform-dependent, so you can use it on any platform, including Odoo.sh, online, or self-hosted platforms. Odoo RPC can be used with any programming language, so you can integrate...