When developing an Odoo project, it is very helpful to bootstrap a completely new database from scratch, for instance:
- to deploy a new development environment
- generate builds inside a Continuous Integration system
- replay a data import on a clean database
- …
By bootstraping, I mean create the database and configure it (install your modules, choose a chart of accounts, configure fiscal positions and taxes, etc).
In this post we will write a script using OdooRPC, a Python package to pilot your Odoo servers remotely. To install this package, you can use pip:
$ sudo pip install odoorpc
Or APT if you are running Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 or Debian Stretch (the current Debian testing):
# apt-get install python-odoorpc
We will try to make the script indempotent to be able to run it several times against an existing database.
First, create a Python module (e.g bootstrap-db.py) with two functions to initialize a session with our Odoo server and to create an empty database:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Script to bootstrap a database."""
import odoorpc
# Odoo connection
SUPER_PWD = 'admin'
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 8069
DB = 'my_db'
USER = 'admin'
PWD = 'password'
LANG = 'en_US'
COMPANY = u"ABF OSIELL"
TIMEZONE = u"Europe/Paris"
MODULES_TO_INSTALL = [
'sale',
'purchase',
'account_accountant',
'l10n_fr',
]
def get_session(login=True):
odoo = odoorpc.ODOO(HOST, port=PORT)
odoo.config['timeout'] = None
if login:
odoo.login(DB, USER, PWD)
return odoo
def create_database():
odoo = get_session(login=False)
if DB not in odoo.db.list():
odoo.db.create(
SUPER_PWD, DB, demo=False, lang=LANG, admin_password=PWD)
def main():
create_database()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
That’s a good start! Some modules are automatically installed on a newly created database and we want to uninstall some of them (e.g. the Odoo support live chat). Let’s create a new function to uninstall them, and then call it from the main() function:
[...]
def uninstall_modules():
odoo = get_session()
Module = odoo.env['ir.module.module']
module_names = ['im_chat', 'im_livechat', 'im_odoo_support']
for module_name in module_names:
module_ids = Module.search(
[('name', '=', module_name),
('state', 'in', ['installed', 'to upgrade',
'to remove', 'to install'])])
if module_ids:
Module.button_immediate_uninstall(module_ids)
def main():
create_database()
uninstall_modules()
[...]
Next step: configure the company and the admin user account (adding additional access rights, and set your timezone):
[...]
def update_company():
odoo = get_session()
company = odoo.env.user.company_id
company.name = COMPANY
def update_admin_user():
odoo = get_session()
admin = odoo.env.user
group_technical_feature = odoo.env.ref('base.group_no_one')
group_sale_manager = odoo.env.ref('base.group_sale_manager')
if group_technical_feature not in admin.groups_id:
admin.groups_id += group_technical_feature
if group_sale_manager not in admin.groups_id:
admin.groups_id += group_sale_manager
if not admin.tz:
admin.tz = TIMEZONE
def main():
create_database()
uninstall_modules()
update_company()
update_admin_user()
[...]
Likewise, we may want to install some modules (listed in MODULES_TO_INSTALL):
[...]
def install_modules():
odoo = get_session()
# Installation
Module = odoo.env['ir.module.module']
for module_name in MODULES_TO_INSTALL:
module_ids = Module.search(
[('name', '=', module_name),
('state', 'not in', ['installed', 'to upgrade'])])
if module_ids:
Module.button_immediate_install(module_ids)
def main():
create_database()
uninstall_modules()
update_company()
update_admin_user()
install_modules()
[...]
You can see that OdooRPC makes the thing easier.
Now, as we installed the Accounts modules, we should configure the chart of accounts to use. This step implies the manipulation of so-called Configuration wizards:
[...]
def configure_account():
odoo = get_session()
# account.installer
Wizard = odoo.env['account.installer']
config = Wizard.default_get(list(Wizard.fields_get()))
config['charts'] = 'l10n_fr'
wiz_id = Wizard.create(config)
Wizard.action_next([wiz_id])
# wizard.multi.charts.accounts
Wizard = odoo.env['wizard.multi.charts.accounts']
config = Wizard.default_get(list(Wizard.fields_get()))
config['chart_template_id'] = odoo.env.ref(
'l10n_fr.l10n_fr_pcg_chart_template').id
values = Wizard.onchange_chart_template_id(
[], config['chart_template_id'])['value']
config.update(values)
config['sale_tax'] = odoo.env.ref('l10n_fr.tva_normale').id
config['purchase_tax'] = odoo.env.ref('l10n_fr.tva_acq_normale').id
config['code_digits'] = 8
del config['bank_accounts_id']
wiz_id = Wizard.create(config)
try:
Wizard.action_next([wiz_id])
except odoorpc.error.RPCError:
print "Accounting already configured"
def main():
create_database()
uninstall_modules()
update_company()
update_admin_user()
install_modules()
configure_account()
[...]
You can use the developer mode from Odoo to know which wizards to call with their corresponding fields, here they are named account.installer and wizard.multi.charts.accounts. Other wizards exist depending on the modules installed.
Run, run, run
Give the proper permissions to the script:
$ chmod u+x bootstrap-db.py
And run it!
$ ./bootstrap-db.py
After a while, your database will be fully functional.
EDIT: The full script is available on GitHub. Feel free to tune it.