The Library client XML-RPC interface

Let's start with the implementation of out Library client application. We will split it into two files: one dealing with the interface with the server backend, library_api.py, and another dealing with the application's user interface, library.py. We will then provide alternative implementation for the backend interface, using the existing library, OdooRPC.

We will create a class to set up the connection with an Odoo server, and read/write Library Book data. It should expose the basic CRUD methods:

• search_read() to retrieve book data
• create() to create books
• write() to update books
• unlink() to delete a book

 

 

Choose a directory to host the application files and create the library_api.py file. We start by adding the class constructor, as follows:

from xmlrpc import client
 
class LibraryAPI(): 
    def __init__(self, srv, port, db, user, pwd):
        common = client.ServerProxy(
            'http://%s:%d/xmlrpc/2/common' % (srv, port))
        self.api = client...