Using the OdooRPC library

Another relevant client library to be considered is OdooRPC. It is a complete client library that uses the JSON-RPC protocol instead of XML-RPC. The Odoo official web client uses JSON-RPC as well, although XML-RPC is still also supported.

The OdooRPC library is now maintained under the Odoo Community Association umbrella. The source code repository can be found at https://github.com/OCA/odoorpc.

The OdooRPC library can be installed from PyPI using the following command:

$ pip3 install odoorpc

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

The OdooRPC library can be used to provide an alternate implementation for the library_xmlrpc.py interface with the server. It should provide...