Odoo Dev Toolkit

🚀 The Ultimate VS Code Extension for Odoo Developers

Boost your Odoo development productivity with intelligent code completion, snippets, validators, and generators.

✨ Features

📝 Smart Snippets

40+ Python Snippets for rapid Odoo development:

• omodel - New Odoo model
• oinherit - Inherit existing model
• owizard - Transient wizard model
• fchar, ftext, fint, ffloat, fbool - Field definitions
• fm2o, fo2m, fm2m - Relational fields
• fsel, fsel-state - Selection fields with state workflow
• @depends, @onchange, @constrains - Decorators
• ocreate, owrite, ounlink - CRUD overrides
• And many more!

35+ XML Snippets for views and data:

• oform, olist, osearch, okanban - Complete views
• oaction, omenu, omenu-root - Actions and menus
• oxpath, oinherit-view - View inheritance
• obutton, ostat - Buttons
• ocron, oserver-action - Automated actions
• t-foreach, t-if, t-esc - QWeb templates

🔧 Generators

Module Scaffolder

Create a complete Odoo module structure with one command:

📁 my_module/
├── __init__.py
├── __manifest__.py
├── 📁 models/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── my_model.py
├── 📁 views/
│   └── menu_views.xml
├── 📁 security/
│   └── ir.model.access.csv
├── 📁 data/
├── 📁 static/
│   └── 📁 description/
│       └── icon.png
└── 📁 wizard/

Model Generator

• Create new models with common fields
• Add fields to existing models
• Auto-generates with mail.thread and mail.activity.mixin

Security Generator

• Scans Python models automatically
• Generates ir.model.access.csv
• Creates user and manager groups

View Generator

• Generate Form, List, Search, and Kanban views
• Detects fields from model definition
• Creates action and menu items

✅ XML Validator

Real-time validation for Odoo XML files:

• Detects deprecated attrs attribute (Odoo 17+)
• Warns about deprecated states attribute
• Catches empty id attributes
• Finds duplicate record IDs
• Validates XML syntax

💡 Intelligent Autocomplete

Python Autocomplete:

• fields. - All Odoo field types with parameters
• models. - Model, TransientModel, AbstractModel
• @api. - All API decorators
• Common model references (res.partner, sale.order, etc.)

XML Autocomplete:

• widget="" - All Odoo widgets
• type="" - Button and field types
• position="" - XPath positions
• Common models and field names

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

1. Download the .vsix file
2. In VS Code: Ctrl+Shift+P → "Install from VSIX"
3. Reload VS Code

Commands

Access all commands: Ctrl+Shift+P → "Odoo:"

📖 Usage Examples

Creating a New Module

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+O M
2. Enter module name: inventory_tracking
3. Enter description: Inventory Tracking System
4. Enter author name
5. Enter main model name: inventory.item

Result: Complete module with model, views, security, and menu!

Using Snippets

In a Python file, type:

omodel   → Generates complete model class
fchar    → fields.Char('Name')
fm2o     → fields.Many2one('model', string='Label')
@depends → @api.depends('field') + compute method

In an XML file, type:

oform    → Complete form view
oaction  → Window action
omenu    → Menu item
oxpath   → XPath selector

Generate Security from Models

1. Open any Python file in your module
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+O S
3. Security file with all models is generated!

Generate Views from Model

1. Open a model Python file
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+O V
3. Select which views to generate
4. Complete view file created!

⚙️ Configuration

Configure in VS Code Settings (Ctrl+,):

{
    "odoo-dev-toolkit.author": "Stevenmarp",
    "odoo-dev-toolkit.defaultOdooVersion": "18.0",
    "odoo-dev-toolkit.defaultLicense": "LGPL-3",
    "odoo-dev-toolkit.autoGenerateSecurity": true,
    "odoo-dev-toolkit.autoGenerateViews": true
}

🎯 Supported Odoo Versions

• ✅ Odoo 18.0
• ✅ Odoo 17.0
• ✅ Odoo 16.0
• ✅ Odoo 15.0
• ✅ Odoo 14.0

📋 Snippet Reference

Python Snippets

Models

Fields

Decorators

Methods

Other

XML Snippets

Views

Actions & Menus

Elements

Data

QWeb

🐛 Known Issues

• XML validation might show false positives for complex QWeb templates
• Some snippets may need adjustment for older Odoo versions

📝 Changelog

1.0.0 (2025-01-XX)

• Initial release
• 40+ Python snippets
• 35+ XML snippets
• Module scaffolder
• Model generator
• Security generator
• View generator
• XML validator
• Intelligent autocomplete

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

👨‍💻 Author

Stevenmarp

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💖 Support

If you find this extension useful, consider:

• ⭐ Starring the repository
• 📝 Writing a review on VS Code Marketplace
• 🐛 Reporting bugs or suggesting features

Made with ❤️ for the Odoo community