Odoo Development

This is the Mint System Odoo development environment.

This projects provides a highly opinionated way to develop Odoo and Odoo modules. It supports the following scenarios:

• Docker Compose: Spin up a Odoo, Postgres and pgAdmin Docker container and experiment locally
• Import and Export Database: Use Odoo scripts to copy and restore a remote customer database in the local development environment. Investigate issues and deploy the database at wish
• Community Edition: Checkout the Odoo Community Edition and start editing the source code
• Enterprise Modules: Checkout the Odoo enterprise modules and deploy them into the Odoo Docker container or the Odoo source.
• Develop Modules: Scaffold a new module, develop new Odoo features locally and much more
• Customizing Snippets: Create snippets and push them to an Odoo database
• Odoo Scripts: Develope scripts to patch Odoo modules

Requirements

The Odoo development environment has the following requirements:

• Docker and Docker Compose
• Install python 3.6+ with pyenv
• bash/zsh alias task='./task' with optional completion

Usage

The usage section is a set of workflows. Pick the one required by your scenario. See task help or task for details about the projects commands.

Clone this repository.

git clone git@github.com:Mint-System/Odoo-Development.git
cd Odoo-Development

Checkout branch.

task checkout 13.0
# or
task checkout 14.0
# or
task checkout 15.0
# or
task checkout 16.0

Install Odoo scripts

task install-odoo-scripts

Native

Run Odoo from source. Currently supported OS: Ubuntu, Debian

Install Odoo native requirements

Pull the odoo submodule and install the python dependencies.

git submodule update odoo
task install-native

Initialize and start Odoo from source

Run database container only

task start db
# or
npm run task-start-db

Initialize database

task init-db

Start Odoo from source

task start native
# or
npm run task-start-native

Open browser to http://localhost:8069 and login with admin:admin.

Create a new module from source

Scaffold a new module.

task create-module addons/project_report

Docker

Run Odoo with Docker container.

Start and initialize Odoo with Docker

Run docker compose.

task start
# or
npm run task-start

Initialize database.

docker-odoo-install

Open browser to http://localhost:8069 and login with admin:admin.

Install custom module

docker-odoo-install -m show_db_name

Common

Instructions that are true for Docker and native usage paths.

Enable developer mode

Open this url http://localhost:8069/web?debug=1, which contains the debug flag.

Manage database with Docker

Open database manager http://localhost:8000/ and login with admin@example.com:admin.

Remove Docker conainers

Kill docker containers and volumes.

task kill

Stop all Docker containers

task stop

Remove database

task drop-db

Mail

Setup mail server and client

Start mail server.

task start mail

Create a new account odoo@example.com and set odoo as password.
Create a new account test@example.com and set test as password.

Install a simple mail client such as Claws Mail and connect with credentials:

host: localhost
port: 25
username: odoo@example.com
password: test

For incoming mails use these informations:

server type: IMAP host: localhost
port: 143
username: odoo@example.com
password: test

Repeat the same for test@example.com.

Setup incoming and outgoing mail for Odoo

Activate mail sever option with example.com domain.

For outgoing mails use these informations:

host: localhost
port: 25
username: odoo@example.com
password: odoo

For incoming mails use these informations:

server type: IMAP host: localhost
port: 143
username: odoo@example.com
password: odoo

Test mail exchange

Follow these steps to test a mail exchange:

• Send mail in Odoo to test@example.com
• In mail client create reply to the mail and save as draft
• Copy the mail to the inbox of odoo@example.com
• Trigger fetchmail in Odoo
• Check if reply has been processed

Troubleshooting

inotify instance limit reached

Problem

While starting the native server this error is thrown:

OSError: [Errno 24] inotify instance limit reached

Solution

Increase ifnotify watch limit.

sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
fs.inotify.max_user_instances=256

sudo sysctl -p

ImportError libldap

Problem

Instance with auth_ldap does not start.

ImportError: libldap_r-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

Reinstall with pip flags.

pip install python-ldap --force-reinstall --no-binary python-ldap