Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

The Library client XML-RPC interface

Let's start with the implementation of out Library client application. We will split it into two files: one dealing with the interface with the server backend, library_api.py, and another dealing with the application's user interface, library.py. We will then provide alternative implementation for the backend interface, using the existing library, OdooRPC.

We will create a class to set up the connection with an Odoo server, and read/write Library Book data. It should expose the basic CRUD methods:

• search_read() to retrieve book data
• create() to create books
• write() to update books
• unlink() to delete a book

Choose a directory to host the application files and create the library_api.py file. We start ...