Odoo Development Cookbook

Loading data using XML files

Using Chapter 4, Application Models data model, we'll add a book and an author as demonstration data, while we add a well known publisher as normal data in our module.

How to do it...

Create two XML files and link them in your __openerp__.py manifest file:

1. Add in a file called data/demo.xml to your manifest, in the demo section:

       'demo': [
           'data/demo.xml',
       ],

2. Add content to this file:

   <odoo> <record id="author_af" model="res.partner"> <field name="name">Alexandre Fayolle</field> </record> <record id="author_dr" model="res.partner"> <field name="name">Daniel Reis</field> </record> <record id="author_hb" model="res.partner"> <field name="name">Holger Brunn</field> </record> <record id="book_cookbook" model="library.book"> ...