click-odoo 1.5.0

Quick start

Check Odoo is correctly installed: python -c "import odoo" (for Odoo 10 and later) or python -c "import openerp" (for Odoo 8 and 9) must work when run from another directory than the Odoo root directory.

Install click-odoo:

pip install click-odoo

Assuming the following script named list-users.py.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function

for u in env['res.users'].search([]):
    print(u.login, u.name)

It can be run with:

python -m click_odoo -d dbname --log-level=error ./list-users.py

or:

click-odoo -d dbname --log-level=error ./list-users.py

or:

./list-users.py -d dbname --log-level=error

The other technique to create scripts looks like this. Assuming the following script named list-users2.py.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function
import click

import click_odoo


@click.command()
@click_odoo.env_options(default_log_level='error')
@click.option('--say-hello', is_flag=True)
def main(env, say_hello):
    if say_hello:
        click.echo("Hello!")
    for u in env['res.users'].search([]):
        print(u.login, u.name)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

It can be run like this:

$ ./list-users2.py --help
Usage: list-users2.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -c, --config PATH    Specify the Odoo configuration file. Other ways to
                       provide it are with the ODOO_RC or OPENERP_SERVER
                       environment variables, or ~/.odoorc (Odoo >= 10) or
                       ~/.openerp_serverrc.
  -d, --database TEXT  Specify the database name. If present, this
                       parameter takes precedence over the database
                       provided in the Odoo configuration file.
  --log-level TEXT     Specify the logging level. Accepted values depend on
                       the Odoo version, and include debug, info, warn,
                       error, critical. [default: error]
  --logfile PATH       Specify the log file.
  --rollback           Rollback the transaction even if the script
                       does not raise an exception. Note that if
                       the script itself commits, this option has no
                       effect, this is why it is not named dry run.
                       This option is implied when an interactive
                       console is started.
  --say-hello
  --help               Show this message and exit.

$ ./list-users2.py --say-hello -d dbname
Hello!
admin Administrator
...

Finally, you can start an interactive shell by simply typing python -m click_odoo -d dbname or click-odoo -d dbname. This will launch the python REPL with an Odoo env available as a global variable.

Supported Odoo versions

Odoo version 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are supported.

An important design goal is to provide a consistent behaviour across Odoo versions.

Database transactions

By default click-odoo commits the transaction for you, unless your script raises an exception. This is so that you don’t need to put explicit commits in your scripts, which are therefore easier to compose in larger transactions (provided they pass around the same env).

There is a --rollback option to force a rollback.

A rollback is always performed after an interactive session. If you need to commit changes made before or during an interactive session, use env.cr.commit().

Logging

In version 8, Odoo logs to stdout by default. On other versions it is stderr. click-odoo attempts to use stderr for Odoo 8 too.

Logging is controlled by the usual Odoo logging options (--log-level, --logfile) or the Odoo configuration file.

Note the --log-level option applies to the odoo package only.

Command line interface (click-odoo)

Usage: click-odoo [OPTIONS] [SCRIPT] [SCRIPT_ARGS]...

  Execute a python script in an initialized Odoo environment. The script has
  access to a 'env' global variable which is an odoo.api.Environment
  initialized for the given database. If no script is provided, the script
  is read from stdin or an interactive console is started if stdin appears
  to be a terminal.

Options:
  -c, --config FILE               Specify the Odoo configuration file. Other
                                  ways to provide it are with the ODOO_RC or
                                  OPENERP_SERVER environment variables, or
                                  ~/.odoorc (Odoo >= 10) or
                                  ~/.openerp_serverrc.
  --addons-path TEXT              Specify the addons path. If present, this
                                  parameter takes precedence over the addons
                                  path provided in the Odoo configuration
                                  file.
  -d, --database TEXT             Specify the database name. If present, this
                                  parameter takes precedence over the database
                                  provided in the Odoo configuration file.
  --log-level TEXT                Specify the logging level. Accepted values
                                  depend on the Odoo version, and include
                                  debug, info, warn, error.  [default: info]
  --logfile FILE                  Specify the log file.
  --rollback                      Rollback the transaction even if the script
                                  does not raise an exception. Note that if
                                  the script itself commits, this option has
                                  no effect. This is why it is not named dry
                                  run. This option is implied when an
                                  interactive console is started.
  -i, --interactive / --no-interactive
                                  Inspect interactively after running the
                                  script.
  --shell-interface TEXT          Preferred shell interface for interactive
                                  mode. Accepted values are ipython, ptpython,
                                  bpython, python. If not provided they are
                                  tried in this order.
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Most options above are the same as odoo options and behave identically. Additional Odoo options can be set in the the configuration file. Note however that most server-related options (workers, http interface etc) are ignored because no server is actually started when running a script.

An important feature of click-odoo compared to, say, odoo shell is the capability to pass arguments to scripts.

In order to avoid confusion between click-odoo options and your script options and arguments, it is recommended to separate them with --:

click-odoo -d dbname -- list-users.py -d a b
./list-users.py -d dbname -- -d a b

In both examples above, sys.argv[1:] will contain ['-d', 'a', 'b'] in the script.

API

def get_odoo_args(self, ctx: click.Context) -> List[str]:
    ...

from click_odoo import OdooEnvironment


with OdooEnvironment(database='dbname') as env:
    env['res.users'].search([])

Developement

To run tests, type tox. Tests are made using pytest. To run tests matching a specific keyword for, say, Odoo 12 and python 3.6, use tox -e py36-12.0 -- -k keyword.

This project uses black as code formatting convention, as well as isort and flake8. To make sure local coding convention are respected before you commit, install pre-commit and run pre-commit install after cloning the repository.

Useful links

• pypi page: https://pypi-hypernode.com/project/click-odoo

• code repository: https://github.com/acsone/click-odoo

• report issues at: https://github.com/acsone/click-odoo/issues

Credits

Author:

• Stéphane Bidoul (ACSONE)

Contributors:

• Thomas Binsfeld (ACSONE)

• David Arnold (XOE)

• Jairo Llopis (Tecnativa)

Inspiration has been drawn from:

• anybox.recipe.odoo

• anthem by Camptocamp

• odoo’s own shell command

Maintainer

This project is maintained by ACSONE SA/NV.

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