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Build Pipelines with Live Odoo Data in Google Cloud Data Fusion (via CData Connect Cloud)
Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to Odoo from Google Cloud Data Fusion, enabling the integration of live Odoo data into the building and management of effective data pipelines.
Google Cloud Data Fusion simplifies building and managing data pipelines by offering a visual interface to connect, transform, and move data across various sources and destinations, streamlining data integration processes. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, it provides access to Odoo data for building and managing ELT/ETL data pipelines. This article explains how to use CData Connect Cloud to create a live connection to Odoo and how to connect and access live Odoo data from the Cloud Data Fusion platform.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Configure Odoo Connectivity for Cloud Data Fusion
Connectivity to Odoo from Cloud Data Fusion is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Odoo data from Cloud Data Fusion, we start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
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- Select "Odoo" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Odoo.
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
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- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Odoo Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
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Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Odoo data from Cloud Data Fusion.
Connecting to Odoo from Cloud Data Fusion
Follow these steps to establish a connection from Cloud Data Fusion to Odoo through the CData Connect Cloud JDBC driver:
- Download and install the CData Connect Cloud JDBC driver:
- Open the Client Tools page of CData Connect Cloud.
- Search for JDBC or Cloud Data Fusion.
- Click on Download and select your operating system (Mac/Windows/Linux).
- Once the download is complete, run the setup file.
- When the installation is complete, the JAR file can be found in the installation directory (inside the lib folder).
- Log into Cloud Data Fusion.
- Click the green "+" button at the top right to add an entity.
- Under Driver, click Upload.
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- Now, upload the CData Connect Cloud JDBC driver (JAR file).
- Enter the driver settings:
- Name: Enter the name of the driver
- Class name: Enter "cdata.jdbc.connect.ConnectDriver"
- Version: Enter the driver version
- Description (optional): Enter a description for the driver
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- Click on Finish.
- Enter source configuration settings:
- Label: Helps to identify the connection
- JDBC driver name: Enter the JDBC driver name to identify the driver configured in Step 6.
- Connection string: Enter the JDBC connection string and include the following parameters in it:
jdbc:connect:AuthScheme=Basic;User=[User];Password=[Password]; - User: Enter your CData Connect Cloud username, displayed in the top-right corner of the CData Connect Cloud interface. For example, "test@cdata.com"
- Password: Enter the PAT you generated on the Settings page.
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- Click Validate in the top right corner.
- If the connection is successful, you can manage the pipeline by editing it through the UI.
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- Run the pipepline created.
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Troubleshooting
Please be aware that there is a known issue in Cloud Data Fusion where "int" types from source data are automatically cast as "long".
Live Access to Odoo Data from Cloud Applications
Now you have a direct connection to live Odoo data from from Google Cloud Data Fusion. You can create more connections to ensure a smooth movement of data across various sources and destinations, thereby streamlining data integration processes - all without replicating Odoo data.
To get real-time data access to 100+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources (including Odoo) directly from your cloud applications, explore the CData Connect Cloud.
