Odoo Development Essentials

Bending the Odoo Learning Curve

Odoo Experience 2015Alexandre Fayolle | Daniel Reis

An Odoo learning curve?

1/ Starting up

Use Linux to host Odoo Work from your favourite OS Know the tools

Choose to use a Linux server Windows or Linux?

Linux is better for production (workers) Linux has better community support Linux has more cloud deployment options

I don't know Linux! Use an Ubuntu Server VM Lots of online resources Learning curve will pay off

Develop remotely on your server

Work on your OS and IDE of choice Use SAMBA to share an access server files Pilot Odoo instances through SSH shell Debug server side using pdb (pudb, ipdb)

Get to know your tools

Explore Python using it's shell Get familiar with tuples, lists and dicts Try and learn Git and the fork workflow Code editor w/ integrated style/lint checking Official docs: https://odoo.com/documentation

2/ Developing Apps

What the docs won't tell you Basics about dev workflow

What the docs don't tell you

Expect major version to be incompatible Master branch is “API unstable” Modules are just Python + Data records!

Basics about dev workflow

“Technical Features” and “Developer Mode” Can't see your module? Check addons path

Module upgrade: reloads data and db struct. Server restart: reloads Python code Or do both: ./odoo.py -d db -u module

3/ ExpandingHorizons

Experiment with the API Explore Odoo code Contribute to OCA

Deepening your knowledge

Experiment with the Odoo server API Odoo shell command Erppeek client

Explore the Odoo code Use grep to find usage examples $ grep -rni --include=”*.py” ”text” ./odoo/addons

Contribute to the OCA Code reviews can provide good mentoring

The Odoo Development Essentials book

1/ A step-by-step introduction

2/ Deeper dive into each development topic

Visit https://essentials.odoo.com

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Alexandre Fayolle

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email alexandre.fayolle AT camptocamp.com

Daniel Reis

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email dgreis AT sapo.pt