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You're reading from Odoo 12 Development Cookbook 190+ unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789618921

Length 774 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (4):

Parth Gajjar

Daniel Reis

Holger Brunn

Alexandre Fayolle

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing Odoo Server Instances

3. Server Deployment

4. Creating Odoo Add-On Modules

5. Application Models

6. Basic Server-Side Development

7. Module Data

8. Debugging

9. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques

10. Backend Views

11. Access Security

12. Internationalization

13. Automation, Workflows, and Printouts

14. Web Server Development

15. CMS Website Development

16. Web Client Development

17. In-App Purchasing with Odoo

18. Automated Test Cases

19. Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh

20. Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

21. Performance Optimization

22. Point of Sale

23. Manage Emails in Odoo

24. IoT Box

25. Other Book You May Enjoy

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Remote Procedure Calls in Odoo

The Odoo server supports Remote procedure calls (RPC), which means that you can connect Odoo instances from external applications. 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. Odoo RPC is not platform-dependant, 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 Odoo with any external application.

Odoo provides two types of RPC API—XML-RPC and JSON-RPC. In this recipe, we will learn how to use these...

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Authors (4)

Gajjar

Mantavya Gajjar has 10+ years' experience in Odoo, starting from TinyERP and OpenERP. He started his career as a developer and developed many new features in TinyERP, OpenERP, and Odoo. He has initiated a mobile application project at the Indian office . He has graduate and postgraduate degrees in Computer Applications from Gujarat Vidyapith. In June 2006, he started working for Axelor and Tiny ERP at Ahmadabad. He was the first international employee appointed to establish a branch of TinyERP in India (Ahmadabad, Gujarat). He has done everything from registering a legal company to setting up the physical office and recruitment. He has interviewed more than eight thousand candidates in the last 10 years, and he has selected and trained three hundred candidates for the Indian branch. Most professionals working on Odoo in India are trained by him. As a result, today India (Ahmadabad, Gujarat) is called the Hub of Odoo Developers, and over a thousand Odoo developers are available only in Gujarat. Mantavya is actively engaged with many universities in preparing and reviewing the syllabus for the Computer Applications and Computer Science courses. He has reviewed thousands of academic student projects. As an alumnus of the Gujarat Vidyapith Computer Science Alumni association, he contributes his free time to various social activities. He also plays the role of a trustee member and treasurer at Gujarat Vidyapith. In his spare time, he enjoys playing cricket with friends and driving to new destinations by road with his wife and daughter.

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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.

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Holger Brunn

Holger Brunn has been a fervent open source advocate since he came into contact with the open source market sometime in the nineties. He has programmed for ERP and similar systems in different positions since 2001. For the last 10 years, he has dedicated his time to TinyERP, which became OpenERP and evolved into Odoo. Currently, he works at Therp BV in the Netherlands as a developer and is an active member of the Odoo Community Association.

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Fayolle

Alexandre Fayolle started working with Linux and free software in the mid-1990s and quickly became interested in the Python programming language. In 2012, he joined Camptocamp to share his expertise on Python, PostgreSQL, and Linux with the team implementing Odoo. He currently manages projects for Camptocamp and is strongly involved in the Odoo Community Association. In his spare time, he likes to play jazz on the vibraphone.

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