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You're reading from Odoo 12 Development Essentials Fast-track your Odoo development skills to build powerful business applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532470

Length 404 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

CRM

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER

2. Preparing the Development Environment

3. Your First Odoo Application

4. Extending Modules

5. Import, Export, and Module Data

6. Models – Structuring the Application Data

7. Recordsets – Working with Model Data

8. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

9. External API – Integrating with Other Systems

10. Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

11. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

12. Reports and Server-Side QWeb

13. Creating Website Frontend Features

14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

15. Assessments

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Development tools

There are a few techniques developers should learn to aid them in their work. Earlier in this book, we introduced the Developer Mode user interface. We also have a server option available, providing some developer-friendly features. We will be describing this in more detail in this section. After that, we will discuss another relevant topic for developers: how to debug server-side code.

Server development options

The Odoo server provides the --dev option to enable some developer features to speed up our development cycle, such as the following:

Entering the debugger when an exception is found in an add-on module
Reloading Python code automatically once a Python file is saved, avoiding a manual server restart
Reading view definitions directly from XML files, avoiding manual module upgrades

The --dev option accepts a comma-separated list of options, and the all option will be suitable most of the time. We can also specify the debugger we prefer to use. By default, the Python debugger...