odoo-autodiscover 1.0.1

How to install

• create a virtualenv and make sure you have a recent version of pip (by running pip install -U pip or using get-pip.py)

• install Odoo with the standard Odoo installation procedure

• make sure Odoo is installed (the following commands must work: python -c "import openerp", odoo.py and openerp-server, and pip list must show the odoo package)

• install this package (pip install odoo-autodiscover)

How to use

• create or install odoo addons in the odoo_addons namespace package possibly with the help of the setuptools-odoo package.

• run odoo with openerp-server-autodiscover or odoo-autodiscover.py and notice the addons path is constructued automatically

Complete example

The following commands install Odoo 8.0 nightly, then install base_import_async pulling all required dependencies automatically (ie connector).

It uses pre-built wheel packages at https://wheelhouse.acsone.eu, so the procedure is extremely fast and you don’t need any compiler nor build dependencies.

# create and activate a virtualenv
virtualenv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
# install Odoo 8.0 nightly
pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odoo/odoo/8.0/requirements.txt \
  --find-links=https://wheelhouse.acsone.eu/odoo-requirements --no-index
pip install https://nightly.odoo.com/8.0/nightly/src/odoo_8.0.latest.zip
# install odoo-autodiscover
pip install odoo-autodiscover
# install base_import_async from wheelhouse.acsone.eu
pip install odoo-addon-base_import_async \
  --find-links=https://wheelhouse.acsone.eu/oca-8.0 --no-index
# start odoo
openerp-server-autodiscover

Should you like to have an Odoo shell, simply pip install the module:

pip install odoo-addon-shell \
  --find-links=https://wheelhouse.acsone.eu/oca-8.0 --no-index
odoo-autodiscover.py shell

To view addon packages that are installed in your virtualenv, simply use pip list | grep odoo-addon- (note official addons are part of the odoo package).

Technical note

Since it’s not possible to make openerp.addons a namespace package (because openerp/__init__.py contains code), we use a pseudo-package named odoo_addons for the sole purpose of discovering addons installed with setuptools in that namespace. odoo_addons is not intended to be imported as the Odoo import hook will make sure all addons can be imported from openerp.addons as usual.

See https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/pkg_resources.html for more information about namespace packages.

See https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/8758 to follow progress with making openerp.addons a namespace package, which will hopefully make this package obsolete in the future.

Useful links

• pypi page: https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/odoo-autodiscover

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

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

• see also setuptools-odoo: https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/setuptools-odoo

Credits

Author:

• Stéphane Bidoul (ACSONE)

Many thanks to Daniel Reis who cleared the path, and Laurent Mignon who convinced me it was possible to do it using standard Python setup tools and had the idea of the odoo_addons namespace package.

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