Chapter 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data
In the previous chapters, we had an end-to-end overview of creating new modules for Odoo. In Chapter 2, Building Your First Odoo Application, a completely new application was built, and in Chapter 3, Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications, we explored inheritance and how to use it to create an extension module for our application. In Chapter 4, Data Serialization and Module Data, we discussed how to add initial and demonstration data to our modules.
In these overviews, we touched all the layers involved in building a backend application for Odoo. Now, in the following chapters, it's time to explain in more detail these several layers making up an application: models, views, and business logic.
In this chapter, you will learn how to design the data structures supporting an application, and how to represent the relations between them.
