The previous commit moved to /jsonrpc, which the v19 docs list as deprecated
alongside /xmlrpc — both go away in Odoo 22. The actual v19 external API is
JSON-2: POST /json/2/<model>/<method>, API key as a bearer token.
Three consequences, all of which change calling code:
- no uid and no password; UID now comes from res.users/context_get
- every argument is named, positional args do not exist, so x() becomes
x(model, method, ids=None, **kwargs) and callers pass domain=/vals=/fields=
- one call is one transaction and nothing chains, which is the mechanical
reason state changes must go through a button method
Batching: no multi-call envelope exists, so batching means widening a call, not
bundling calls. Added get_or_create_many() (one search_read + one create for a
whole set) and put build_demo.py's product, customer, vehicle, invoice and
headroom loops through set-based calls.
test_odoo_connect.py checks the call shape and the batching offline, with a
faked urlopen — none of this can be exercised without a live instance otherwise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JSON-RPC is the recommended Odoo API from 19 on. odoo_connect.py now posts to
/jsonrpc over stdlib urllib instead of xmlrpc.client — same x()/get_or_create()/
fields_named() surface, common.version() becomes version(), server errors raise
OdooError with Odoo's message, 600s timeout so module installs survive.
Also: state changes must go through the model's own button method, never a write
on state. Writing the field skips the delivery order, the journal entries, the
sequence and the validations a hero feature exists to demonstrate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
build_demo.py reads every key with cfg.get(), so a config describing objects it does
not implement was skipped in silence — it printed DONE over an empty database. That
is the same "reports success over an environment that isn't" failure the purge section
exists to prevent, one layer up, and it is how a vertical config (take-offs, progress
statements) would have failed.
Unknown top-level keys now list themselves and abort. DEMO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_KEYS=1
overrides for a deliberate partial run. Keys starting with _ stay free for comments,
so the shipped example config passes clean.
SKILL.md now states outright that build_demo.py is a per-engagement template rather
than an engine, since that is what makes the failure mode surprising.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Public skill for Claude Code. Mines a discovery call, researches native-vs-custom,
stands up a working Odoo demo over XML-RPC (modules + data + tested hero features),
and generates run-of-show, one-pager, and a 1-page demo script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SBytQq5dcASi4ETm7n6THb
