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⇱ Connect to Odoo Data in Aqua Data Studio

Connect to Odoo Data in Aqua Data Studio

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Access Odoo data from tools in Aqua Data Studio such as the Visual Query Builder and the Table Data Editor.

The CData JDBC Driver for Odoo integrates Odoo data with wizards and analytics in IDEs like Aqua Data Studio. This article shows how to connect to Odoo data through the connection manager and execute queries.

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.
  • 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


Create a JDBC Data Source

You can use the connection manager to define connection properties and save them in a new JDBC data source. The Odoo data source can then be accessed from Aqua Data Studio tools.

  1. In Aqua Data Studio, select Register Server from the Servers menu.
  2. In the Register Server form, select the 'Generic - JDBC' connection.
  3. Enter the following JDBC connection properties:
    • Name: Enter a name for the data source; for example, Odoo.
    • Driver Location: Click the Browse button and select the cdata.jdbc.odoo.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
    • Driver: Enter the Driver's class name, cdata.jdbc.odoo.OdooDriver.

    • URL: Enter the JDBC URL, which starts with jdbc:odoo: and is followed by a semicolon-separated list of connection properties.

      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.

      Built-in Connection String Designer

      For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Odoo JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

      java -jar cdata.jdbc.odoo.jar

      Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

      👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
      A typical JDBC URL is below:
      jdbc:odoo:User=MyUser;Password=MyPassword;URL=http://MyOdooSite/;Database=MyDatabase;
    👁 The JDBC data source, defined by the JAR path, driver class, and JDBC URL. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Query Odoo Data

You can now query the tables exposed.

👁 A query executed in the Table Data Editor. (QuickBooks is shown.)

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