OERPLib 0.4.0

OpenERP client library which allows to easily interact with an OpenERP server.

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OERPLib
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`OERPLib` is a client library to `OpenERP` server. It aims to provide an easy
way to remotely pilot an `OpenERP` server.

Features supported:
- XML-RPC and Net-RPC protocols
- convenient methods such as ``create``, ``read``, ``write``, ``unlink`` and
``search`` (alongside ``execute`` to perform other methods),
- browse records (``browse`` method implemented),
- execute workflows,
- manage databases,
- reports downloading.

How does it work? See below::

#!/usr/bin/env python
import oerplib

# Prepare the connection to the OpenERP server
oerp = oerplib.OERP('localhost', 'db_name')

# Login (the object returned is a browsable record)
user = oerp.login('user', 'passwd')
print(user.name) # name of the user connected
print(user.company_id.name) # the name of its company

# Simple 'raw' query
user_data = oerp.execute('res.users', 'read', user.id)
print(user_data)

# Or use the 'read' method
# ('create', 'write', 'unlink' and 'search' exist too)
user_data = oerp.read('res.users', user.id)

# Advanced query: get browsable records
for order in oerp.browse('sale.order', [1, 2]):
print(order.name)
for line in order.order_line:
print(line.name)

# Update data through a browsable record
user.name = "Brian Jones"
oerp.write_record(user)

See the documentation for more details.

Supported OpenERP versions
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`OERPLib` is known to work with `OpenERP` server v5 and v6.

Supported Python versions
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`OERPLib` support Python versions 2.6 and 2.7.

Generate the documentation
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To generate the documentation, you have to install `Sphinx` documentation
generator::

easy_install -U sphinx

Then, you can use the ``build_doc`` option of the ``setup.py``::

python setup.py build_doc

The generated documentation will be in the ``./doc/build/html`` directory.

Bugs or suggestions
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Please, feel free to report bugs or suggestions in the `Bug Tracker
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/oerplib/+filebug>`_!

Changes in this version
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Consult the ``CHANGES.txt`` file.