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Build Odoo-Connected Apps in Mendix
Use CData Connect Cloud to create an OData feed for Odoo Data and create custom apps in Mendix.
Mendix is a high-productivity app platform that allows you to build and maintain both mobile and web applications at-scale. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, Mendix provides instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Odoo data for applications. This article demonstrates how to connect to a CData Connect Cloud data source from within Mendix.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Odoo, allowing you to import data from live Odoo data in Mendix — without replicating the data to a natively supported database. As you build web and mobile applications from within Mendix, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Odoo, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Odoo data quickly.
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 Mendix
Connectivity to Odoo from Mendix is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Odoo data from Mendix, we start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- 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
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Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Odoo Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
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Configure Odoo Endpoints for Mendix
After connecting to Odoo, create a workspace and virtual dataset for your desired table(s).
- Navigate to the Virtual Datasets page and click Add to create a new Workspace (or select an existing workspace).
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- Click Add to add new assets to the Workspace.
- Select the Odoo connection (e.g. Odoo1) and click Next.
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- Select the table(s) you wish to work with and click Confirm.
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- Make note of the OData Service URL for your workspace, e.g. https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name}
With the connection and Workspace configured, you are ready to connect to Odoo data from Mendix.
Build a Odoo-Connected App
With the Workspace added to Connect Cloud, you can build an app in Mendix with live access to Odoo data.
Downloading the OData Metadata File
When creating a connection in Mendix, the connection flow requires a Data Source Contract File. Follow these steps to download the OData metadata file for CData Connect Cloud using curl, a command line tool:
- Open a command-line window for your operating system. On Windows, open the start menu, type cmd, and press the Enter key to open a command prompt. On macOS and Linux, open a Terminal window.
- To check if curl is installed on your system, type curl -help and press the enter key. If it is not installed, install it from the curl website.
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Issue the following curl command, replacing USER with your CData Connect Cloud
username and PAT with the PAT you generated above:
curl -u USER:PAT https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name}/$metadata -o metadata.xml - Locate the metadata.xml file that the curl command created and move it to an accessible location.
Connecting to CData Connect Cloud in Mendix
Follow these steps to establish a connection from Mendix to CData Connect Cloud:
- Login to Mendix and open the Data Hub page.
- In the Register a Data Source section, select OData.
- Upload the metadata.xml file from the steps above and click Next.
- Enter your desired values for Data Source Name and Data Source Version. In the Data Source Relative Path field, enter /api/odata/{workspace_name} and click Next.
- On the Application information page, click Register a new application.
- Enter a name in Application Name and select a technical owner (by default, this is the user who is currently logged in).
- Click Next. In the Environment Name field, enter a desired name (for example, CData Connect Cloud). In the Environment Location field, enter https://cloud.cdata.com and select the appropriate Environment Type (e.g. Production), depending on what is needed.
- Click Done! to create your connection.
You can now use your connection in Mendix Studio Pro to easily create applications with access to live Odoo data.
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