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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook Third Edition 190+ unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications Parth Gajjar Alexandre Fayolle Holger Brunn Daniel Reis BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Odoo 12 Development Cookbook Third Edition Copyright © 2019 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing or its dealers and distributors, will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. Commissioning Editor: Aaron Lazar Acquisition Editor: Alok Dhuri Content Development Editor: Digvijay Bagul Technical Editor: Ashi Singh Copy Editor: Safis Editing Language Support Editors: Mary McGowan, Storm Mann Project Coordinator: Prajakta Naik Proofreader: Safis Editing Indexer: Manju Arasan Graphics: Tom Scaria Production Coordinator: Deepika Naik First published: April 2016 Second edition: January 2018 Third edition: April 2019 Production reference: 1270419 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. 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At www.packt.com, you can also read a collection of free technical articles, sign up for a range of free newsletters, and receive exclusive discounts and offers on Packt books and eBooks. Contributors About the author Parth Gajjar is Application Engineer at Odoo and has been working on Odoo for the past 6 years. For the past year and a half, Parth has been working as a code reviewer at Odoo India. During this time, he has worked in several departments of Odoo, including offshore, migration, and research and development. During his time in research and development, he has developed several key features in Odoo, including the marketing automation module Odoo mobile app (The hybrid JavaScript Part), mobile push notification, Less/CSS editor, Domain Selector widget, and the Qweb report engine prototype. He often gives technical training to Odoo partners. Also, he handes technical interviews at Odoo India. I would like to thank my parents, brother, and wife for all of the support they have given throughout writing this book. I would like to thank again my parents for giving me the freedom and support to follow my ambitions throughout my childhood. Previous edition authors 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. 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 (OCA). Daniel Reis has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in variety of sectors, and today works for Securitas, a multinational security services provider. He has been working with Odoo (formerly OpenERP) since 2010, is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association projects, is currently a member of the board of the Odoo Community Association, and collaborates with ThinkOpen Solutions, a leading Portuguese Odoo integrator. About the reviewers Dharmang Soni has master's degree in Information Technology. He loves to do code and has worked with multiple technologies and frameworks, such as ASP.NET, Android (Java), PHP, iOS (Swift), and Odoo. He has more than 6 years' of experience in development of Odoo applications, websites, and mobile applications. He joined the Indian branch of Odoo S.A. (TinyERP Pvt. Ltd.) in 2012, starting his career at Odoo by developing the Odoo mobile framework for the Android. Later, he developed mobile applications for Android and iOS, currently used worldwide. Currently, he is working as an R&D developer at Odoo and works on IoT and the optimization of the screens for mobile. I would like to thank my parents for their love, good advice, and continuous support. I would also like to thank all my friends that I met along the way who enriched my life, for motivating me and helping me progress. Kishan Gajjar has a degree in computer engineering. He loves programming and designing. He has expertise in various technologies, including Python, JavaScript, and CSS. He is an employee at the Indian branch of Odoo. He joined Odoo 2 years ago and currently works in the R&D department. At Odoo, he mostly works on website builders, themes, and the backend JavaScript framework. To begin with, I'd like to thank my parents for allowing me to follow my ambitions throughout my childhood, and also my brother, who gives encouragement in his particular way. He has been my inspiration and motivation for me continuing to improve my knowledge and move my career forward. Packt is searching for authors like you If you're interested in becoming an author for Packt, please visit authors.packtpub.com and apply today. We have worked with thousands of developers and tech professionals, just like you, to help them share their insight with the global tech community. You can make a general application, apply for a specific hot topic that we are recruiting an author for, or submit your own idea. Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment 9 Introduction 9 Odoo ecosystem 10 Odoo editions 10 Git repositories 11 Runbot 11 Odoo app store 12 Odoo community association 13 Official Odoo help forum 13 Easy installation of Odoo from a source 13 Getting ready 14 How to do it... 14 How it works... 17 Virtual environments 17 PostgreSQL configuration 19 Git configuration 20 Downloading the Odoo source code 20 Starting the instance 21 Managing Odoo environments using the start command 22 Getting ready 22 How to do it... 22 How it works... 23 There's more… 23 Managing Odoo server databases 23 Getting ready 24 How to do it... 24 Accessing the database management interface 24 Setting or changing the master password 24 Creating a new database 26 Duplicating a database 28 Removing a database 28 Backing up a database 29 Restoring a database backup 30 How it works... 31 There's more... 32 Storing the instance configuration in a file 34 How to do it... 34 How it works... 35 Activating the Odoo developer tools 38 Table of Contents How to do it... 38 How it works... 39 Updating Odoo from source 40 Getting ready 40 How to do it... 40 How it works... 42 Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances 43 Introduction 43 Configuring the add-ons path 44 Getting ready 44 How to do it… 45 How it works… 45 There's more… 46 Updating the add-on modules list 47 Getting ready 47 How to do it… 47 How it works… 48 Standardizing your instance directory layout 49 How to do it… 49 How it works… 51 See also 52 There's more... 52 Installing and upgrading local add-on modules 53 Getting ready 53 How to do it… 54 From the web interface 54 From the command line 57 How it works… 58 Add-on installation 58 Add-on update 58 There's more… 60 Installing add-on modules from GitHub 60 Getting ready 61 How to do it… 61 How it works… 62 There's more… 62 Applying changes to add-ons 62 Getting ready 62 How to do it… 63 How it works… 63 See also 64 Applying and trying proposed pull requests 64 Getting ready 64 How to do it… 65 How it works… 65 [ ii ] Table of Contents There's more… 65 Chapter 3: Server Deployment 67 Introduction 67 Installing Odoo for production use 67 Getting ready 68 How to do it... 68 How it works... 70 There's more... 70 Server dimensioning 71 PostgreSQL tuning 71 Source code version 73 Backups 74 Adapting the configuration file for production 75 Getting ready 75 How to do it... 75 How it works... 77 There's more... 79 Setting up Odoo as a system service 80 Getting ready 80 How to do it... 80 How it works... 81 Configuring a reverse proxy and SSL with nginx and Let's Encrypt 81 Getting ready 81 How to do it... 82 How it works... 85 There's more... 87 See also 88 Using Docker to run Odoo 89 Getting ready 89 How to do it… 89 How it works… 90 Running the Odoo image with a configuration file 90 Running the Odoo image with custom add-ons 91 Running multiple Odoo instances 91 There is more... 91 Running Odoo through docker-compose 92 Getting ready 92 How to do it... 92 How it works... 93 There's more... 94 Managing content delivery networks for websites 95 Getting ready 95 How to do it... 95 Configuring the CDN provider 96 [ iii ]
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