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Re: RFC Towards an official client library

 

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Antony Lesuisse <al@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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<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<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)
>

just to make it clear, OOOR fits all the mentioned points
https://github.com/rvalyi/ooor since 2 years now, that is including the
active record API (while also supporting the class batch methods).  You can
find an introduction here
http://www.akretion.com/en/blog/2010/01/18/introducing-ooor---openobject-on-rails-drivingrequesting-your-openerp-became-a-child-play/
Nah, that's true it uses a better language than Python so may be it doesn't
qualify ;-)

Regards.

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