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⇱ Manage Odoo Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

Manage Odoo Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use wizards in DBArtisan to create a JDBC data source for Odoo.

The CData JDBC Driver for Odoo seamlessly integrates Odoo data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Odoo data as a database. This article shows how to create a JDBC source for Odoo in DBArtisan. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

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


Integrate Odoo Data into DBArtisan Projects

Follow the steps below to register Odoo data as a database instance in your project:

  1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
  2. Select Generic JDBC.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. In the resulting dialog, click New. Enter a name for the driver and click Add. In the resulting dialog, navigate to the driver JAR. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory. 👁 The JDBC driver definition in the Register Datasource wizard. (Salesforce is shown.)
  5. In the Connection URL box, enter credentials and other required connection properties in the JDBC URL.

    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.

    👁 Required JDBC connection properties in the Register Datasource wizard. (Salesforce is shown.)

    Below is a typical connection string:

    jdbc:odoo:User=MyUser;Password=MyPassword;URL=http://MyOdooSite/;Database=MyDatabase;
  6. Finish the wizard to connect to Odoo data. Odoo entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Odoo data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Odoo API.

👁 The results of a query. (Salesforce is shown.)