Introducing the learning project – a client app to catalog books
In this chapter, we will work on a simple client application to manage the library book catalog. It is a command-line interface (CLI) application that uses Odoo as its backend. The features that we will implement will be basic to keep the focus on the technology that's used to interact with the Odoo server.
This simple CLI application should be able to do the following:
- Search for and list books by title.
- Add new books to the catalog.
- Edit a book title.
The goal is to focus on how to use the Odoo external API, so we want to avoid introducing additional programming languages that you might not be familiar with. By introducing this constraint, the most sensible choice is to use Python to implement the client app. Still, once we understand the XML-RPC library for a particular language, the techniques to handle the RPC calls will also apply.
The application will be a Python script...
