openerp-expert-framework team mailing list archive

[Antony Lesuisse <al@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everybody on this mailing list probably has already coded one or more openerp 
client library and we all know that it's a waste of time. It would more 
efficient if we had only one official client library. I would like to bless 
one library to make it the official one. But i dont know which one yet. We 
created a project on launchpad where everyone can push their own libs.

https://launchpad.net/openerp-client-lib

Nicolas Vanhoren (my dear colleague) packaged and published a library

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/openerp-client-lib/1.0.0

This library is not endorsed by OpenERP SA but it seems to be a good 
candidate. So we ask you to push your candidate libs on launchpad so that we 
can review them. Some important requirements:

- the library must not use global vars (means you can have multiple connection 
to different servers/dbs in one process)
- api should be similar to the server side api
- no active records nor browse records (yet)

The rationale about the last point is that we plan to introduce a higher level 
api more ormish/activerecord-like/queryset-like on the top of the the current 
orm layer (and, yes, it means we will finally get rid of cr,uid,ids,context)

This is a definitively a 6.2 topic. But I plan to publish, in collaboration 
with Vo Minh Thu, a backward compatible POC soon and i think it will be usable 
in the 6.1 server too as an extra module. And I want this layer to work also 
client side. So that server side code would be the same as client side code 
(but non transactional).

Antony.