odoots

odoots is a typescript client for odoo's JSON-RCP API.

Features (current and planned)

• Written in typescript, fully typed
• Supports both HTTP and HTTPS
• Works in nodejs and browsers (as long as they have builtin "fetch" support)
• Minimal set of dependencies
• Clean and documented code
• Promise-based API, no callbacks

Current status

This library is very new, development started 11 May 2019.

Despite this, the library can be considered in beta state and should be good and stable enough to use for non-critical stuff, like one-off scripts, demos and such.

In the current version, only the general call method is implemented and there are no convenience methods for CRUD operations and other common method calls. These are in the roadmap, but they will just be for convience and improved type-safety when using typescript.

Feature-wise, the current call already covers the entire feature space as all operations, including create, read, update and delete (unlink in odoo) can be executed via call.

Installation

Install from NPM registry:

npm install odoots

If you intend to use it in nodejs, you must also install the optional node-fetch dependency:

npm install odoots node-fetch

Usage

Initialize client

Create and initialize the client by providing the odoo host and the database name to use.

import * as odoots from 'tsodoo'
 
const odoo = new odoots('https://runbot.odoo.com', 'dbname')

Login

Before calling model methods, you'll have to login using the credentials of an internal odoo user.

odoo.login('user', 'password').then(loggedUser => console.log(loggedUser))

The login method returns some data about the logged in user:

{ uid: 2,
  partnerId: 3,
  sessionId: '0ab5c8817ca4c8bed0b6dff42606c27e3c3eee93',
  companyId: 1,
  name: 'Administrator',
  username: 'admin',
  isAdmin: true,
  isSuperuser: undefined,
  context: { lang: 'it_IT', tz: false, uid: 2 } }

Call odoo model methods

The main method provided by odoots. Using call you can call any python method of the odoo models, both standard and custom ones. The signature is quite self-explanatory:

async call (
    model: string,
    method: string,
    args: any[] = [],
    kwargs: object = {},
    options: {includeContext: boolean} = {includeContext: true}
)

• model is the model to use
• method is the model's method to call
• args?: is the list of positional arguments, optional
• kwargs? is the object of keywoard arguments, optional
• options? is an optional object of call options, which are detailed below.

for example the odoo python call:

employees = env['res.users'].search_read([('name', 'ilike', 'Ma%')], ['name', 'login'])

Can be executed remotely via JSON-RPC using odoots like this:

odoo.call('res.users', 'search_read', [[['name', 'ilike', 'Ma%']], ['name', 'login']])

Which returns something like this:

[ { name: 'Mark Twain', login: 'markt', id: 23 } ]

(note that odoo' search_read automatically adds id to the list of fields to read)

Call options

The last parameter of the call method is an object of options. Here are the currently implemented options and what they do:

• includeContext: boolean = true

  If true (the default) the user context returned during login is automatically added to the keyword arguments of the method call. In odoo, the context influences the output of several methods: for example, the context timezone influences the values of datetime fields, and the context language influences the values of translated text fields. Therefore, set this option to false only if you understand the consequences.