Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Writing a Notes desktop application

Let's do something interesting with the RPC API. Odoo provides a simple app for notes. What if users could manage their personal notes directly from their computer's desktop? Let's write a simple Python application to do just that, as shown in the following screenshot:

For clarity, we will split it into two files: one dealing with interactions with the server backend, note_api.py, and another with the graphical user interface, note_gui.py.

Communication layer with Odoo

We will create a class to set up the connection and store its information. It should expose two methods: get() to retrieve task data and set()