Developer’s notes

Source code

Third-party integration

This module can be used with other Python libraries to achieve more complex tasks.

For example:

  • write unit tests using the standard unittest framework.
  • write BDD tests using the Gherkin language, and a library like Behave.
  • build an interface for Odoo, using a framework like Flask (HTML, JSON, SOAP, ...).

Changes

1.6.2 (2015-09-17)

  • Add an optional transport argument to the Client constructor. This is useful for tweaking the SSL context or adding an optional timeout parameter.
  • Implement == comparison for RecordList instances.
  • Uninstall dependent add-ons in a single call.
  • Do not install/uninstall add-ons if other actions are pending.
  • Do not hang when the Client constructor receives invalid arguments.
  • Fix str(record) and print(record) with non-ASCII names.

1.6.1 (2014-11-12)

  • Support using --env and --user together to connect with a different user.
  • Adapt for Odoo 8.0 after change cc4fba6 on October 2014.
  • Do not interpret digits with leading 0 as octal in search domain.

1.6 (2014-09-23)

  • Compatible with Odoo 8.0.
  • New attribute Client.context to set the default context for high-level Model and Record methods.
  • Use blocking RPC call in Client.create_database. Asynchronous method is removed in Odoo.
  • Return the interactive namespace with main(interact=False). It helps to integrate with third-party libraries, such as IPython.
  • Remove a duplicate Logged in as ... line in interactive mode.
  • Remove the search+name_get undocumented feature which has wrong behavior when applied to an empty RecordList.
  • Do not prevent login if access to Client.db.list() is denied.

1.6b1 (2014-06-09)

  • When a function or a method fails, raise an erppeek.Error instead of printing a message and returning None.
  • Switch to local mode when the command line argument points at the server configuration, like -c path/to/openerp-server.conf.
  • Local mode compatible with Odoo trunk: support both the old and the new API.
  • Use shell-like parsing for options = setting in local mode.
  • Function start_openerp_services is replaced with start_odoo_services: it is still compatible with OpenERP 6.1 and 7 and it accepts a list of options in the first argument, similar to sys.argv[1:].
  • Search domains require square brackets. Usage without square brackets was deprecated since 0.5, with UserWarning alerts.
  • Implement addition of RecordList of the same model.
  • Drop compatibility with Python 2.5.

1.5.3 (2014-05-26)

  • Change command line output to CSV format.
  • Translate command line output according to LANG environment variable.
  • Pretty print the list of modules.
  • Do not report Module(s) not found when trying to install a module already installed.

1.5.2 (2014-04-12)

  • Return an appropriate error message when the client is not connected.
  • Two similar Record from different connections do not compare equal.
  • Set the PGAPPNAME used for the PostgreSQL connection, in local mode.
  • Close PostgreSQL connections on exit, in local mode.
  • Implement the context manager protocol.

1.5.1 (2014-03-11)

  • When switching to a different environment, with Client.connect, invalidate the previous connection to avoid mistakes (interactive mode).
  • Avoid cluttering the globals in interactive mode.
  • Close socket to avoid ResourceWarning on Python 3.
  • The get_pool helper is only available in interactive mode and if the client is connected locally using the openerp package.
  • Clear the last exception before entering interactive mode, only needed on Python 2.
  • Fix the searchargs domain parser for compatibility with Python 3.4.

1.5 (2014-03-10)

  • Advertize the Model and Record paradigm in the usage printed in interactive mode: it’s far more easier to use, and available since 1.0.
  • In interactive mode, only inject four global names: client, models, model and do. Other methods are available on Model and Client instances (read search count keys fields access ...).
  • Always clear the Record cache when an arbitrary method is called on this Record.
  • Implement == comparison for Record instances.
  • New computed attributes Record._external_id and RecordList._external_id, and new method Model._get_external_ids(ids=None).
  • Better parsing of dates in search terms.
  • Reject invalid == operator in search terms.
  • Now the str(...) of a Record is always retrieved with name_get. Previously, the output was sometimes inconsistent.
  • Fix TypeError when browsing duplicate ids.
  • Fix error with Model.get(['field = value'], context={...}).
  • Workaround an issue with some models: always pass a list of ids to read.
  • Test the behaviour when read is called with a False id: it happens when browsing a RecordList for example.

1.4.5 (2013-03-20)

  • Extend Model.get to retrieve a record by xml_id.
  • Fix AttributeError when reading a mix of valid and invalid records.
  • Fix dir() on Record and RecordList to return all declared fields, and do not report id field twice.
  • Fix a crash with built-in OS X readline on Python 2.5 or 2.6.

1.4.4 (2013-03-05)

  • Remove deprecated Record.client.
  • Fix compatibility with Python 3.
  • Add optional argument check to the Client.model method to bypass the verification in some cases, used to speed up the read methods.
  • Do not crash when mixing non-existing and existing records: return always False for non-existing records.

1.4.3 (2013-01-10)

  • Compatible with OpenERP 7.
  • Set the database name as thread attribute to print it in the log file (local mode only).
  • Do not try to access private methods through RPC when resolving attributes of the Client or any Record or RecordList.

1.4.2 (2012-12-19)

  • Add the get_pool helper when connected using the openerp library.
  • Remove the leading slash on the server option, if present.
  • Do not try to access private methods through RPC when reading attributes of the model(...).

1.4.1 (2012-10-05)

  • Fix reading many2one attribute on RecordList object in local mode.
  • Fix occasional issue on login when switching database on the same server.
  • Optimization: do not propagate the call to RecordList.write or RecordList.unlink if the list is empty.
  • Clear the Record cache on Record._send.
  • Expose the method Record.refresh to clear the local cache.

1.4 (2012-10-01)

  • New: direct connection to a local server using the openerp library. Use scheme = local and options = -c /path/to/openerp-server.conf in the configuration.

1.3.1 (2012-09-28)

  • Fix method Record._send.

1.3 (2012-09-27)

  • Implement exception chaining in format_exception to print the original traceback.
  • Return a list of Record objects when reading the reference field of a RecordList object.
  • Fix reading attributes on RecordList with holes or gaps.
  • Accessing an empty one2many or many2many attribute on a Record returns a RecordList.
  • New method Model.get to retrieve a single Record. It raises a ValueError if multiple records are found.
  • New method Record._send to send a workflow signal.

1.2.2 (2012-09-24)

  • Accept Record and RecordList attribute values when writing or creating records.
  • Improve the methods write and create of Record and RecordList objects to manage one2many and many2many fields.
  • Return a Record when reading a reference field. Implement the create and write methods for these fields.
  • Remove undocumented alias Record.update.

1.2.1 (2012-09-21)

  • Add the special operators =ilike, =ilike, =? and fix parsing of inequality operators >= and <=.
  • Fix the RecordList.id attribute, and deprecate RecordList._ids.
  • Deprecate the Record.client attribute: use Record._model.client.
  • Accessing an empty many2one attribute on a RecordList now returns a RecordList.
  • Fix TypeError when browsing non-existent records.

1.2 (2012-09-19)

  • Catch some malformed search domains before sending the RPC request.
  • Preserve dictionary response when calling non standard Record methods.
  • Expose the helper format_exception which formats the errors received through XML-RPC.
  • Support XML-RPC through HTTPS with scheme = https in the erppeek.ini configuration file.
  • Print an error message when client.upgrade(...) does not find any module to upgrade.

1.1 (2012-09-04)

  • When using arbitrary methods on Record, wrap the id in a list [id]. It fixes a recurring issue with poorly tested methods.
  • Do not read all records if the RecordList is empty.
  • Fix the bad behaviour when switching to a different database.
  • Order the results when using read method with order= argument.
  • Reading attributes of the sequence <RecordList 'sea.fish,[2, 1, 2]'> will return an ordered sequence of three items. Previously it used to return an unordered sequence of two items.
  • Accept the %(...)s formatting for the fields parameter of the Record.read and the RecordList.read methods too.
  • Add a tutorial to the documentation.

1.0 (2012-08-29)

  • Add the test suite for Python 2 and Python 3.
  • Implement len() for RecordList objects.
  • Connect to the server even if the database is missing.
  • Expose the method Client.db.get_progress.
  • New method Client.create_database which wraps together Client.db.create and Client.db.get_progress.
  • Save the readline history in ~/.erppeek_history, only if the file already exists.
  • Enable auto-completion using rlcompleter standard module.
  • Raise an AttributeError when assigning to a missing or read-only attribute.

0.11 (2012-08-24)

  • Enhance the Model.browse() method to accept the same keyword arguments as the Client.search() method.
  • Fix the verbose level on Client.connect().
  • Fix the Record.copy() method.
  • Fix the Record.perm_read() method (workaround an OpenERP bug when dealing with single ids).
  • Drop the --search argument, because the search terms can be passed as positional arguments after the options. Explain it in the description.
  • Fix the shell command. Request the password interactively if it’s not in the options and not in the configuration file.

0.10 (2012-08-23)

  • Add the --verbose switch to log the XML-RPC messages. Lines are truncated at 79 chars. Use -vv or -vvv to truncate at 179 or 9999 chars respectively.
  • Removed the --write switch because it’s not really useful. Use Record.write() or client.write() for example.
  • Stop raising RuntimeError when calling Client.model(name). Simply print the message if the name does not match.
  • Fix RecordList.read() and Record.read() methods to accept the same diversity of fields arguments as the Client.read() method.
  • RecordList.read() and Record.read() return instances of RecordList and Record for relational fields.
  • Optimize: store the name of the Record when a relational field is accessed.
  • Fix message wording on module install or upgrade.

0.9.2 (2012-08-22)

  • Fix Record.write() and Record.unlink() methods.
  • Fix the caching of the Model keys and fields and the Record name.

0.9.1 (2012-08-22)

  • Fix client.model() method. Add models() to the globals() in interactive mode.

0.9 (2012-08-22)

  • Add the Active Record pattern for convenience. New classes Model, RecordList and Record. The Client.model() method now returns a single Model instance. These models can be reached using camel case attribute too. Example: client.model('res.company') and client.ResCompany return the same Model.
  • Refresh the list of modules before install or upgrade.
  • List all modules which have state not in ('uninstalled', 'uninstallable') when calling client.modules(installed=True).
  • Add documentation.

0.8 (2012-04-24)

  • Fix help(client) and repr(...).
  • Add basic safeguards for argument types.

0.7 (2012-04-04)

  • Fix RuntimeError on connection.

0.6 (2012-04-03)

  • Support Python 3.
  • Return Client method instead of function when calling client.write or similar.
  • Fix the case where read() is called with a single id.

0.5 (2012-03-29)

  • Implement Client.__getattr__ special attribute to call any object method, like client.write(obj, values). This is somewhat redundant with client.execute(obj, 'write', values) and its interactive alias do(obj, 'write', values).
  • Add --write switch to enable unsafe helpers: write, create, copy and unlink.
  • Tolerate domain without square brackets, but show a warning.
  • Add long options --search for -s, --interact for -i.

0.4 (2012-03-28)

  • Workaround for sys.excepthook ignored, related to a Python issue.

0.3 (2012-03-26)

  • Add --config and --version switches.
  • Improve documentation with session examples.
  • Move the project from Launchpad to GitHub.

0.2 (2012-03-24)

  • Allow to switch user or database: methods client.login and client.connect.
  • Allow context= keyword argument.
  • Add access(...) method.
  • Add %(...)s formatting for the fields parameter of the read(...) method.
  • Refactor the interactive mode.
  • Many improvements.
  • Publish on PyPI.

0.1 (2012-03-14)

  • Initial release.