Connect to Odoo Data in NetBeans

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

Connect to Odoo data in NetBeans with the data source configuration wizard.

The CData JDBC Driver for Odoo integrates connectivity to live Odoo data in IDEs that support JDBC. The JDBC standard enables you to use built-in data access wizards and other tools supporting rapid development. This article shows how to connect to Odoo data in NetBeans. You will create a connection and edit and save Odoo data in the Table Editor.

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 for Odoo in NetBeans

To create the JDBC data source, expand the Database node in the Service window, right-click the Drivers node, and select New Driver. In the New Driver wizard that results, enter the following information:

Driver File(s): Click Add and, in the file explorer dialog that appears, select the cdata.jdbc.odoo.jar file. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
Driver Class: Click Find to search for the driver class inside the JAR. Then select cdata.jdbc.odoo.OdooDriver from the menu.
Name: Enter the name for the driver.

👁 The JDBC driver definition. (Salesforce is shown.)

Define Connection Parameters

Follow the steps below to define required connection properties:

In the Service window, right-click the Database node and click New Connection.
In the New Connection Wizard, enter the following connection properties:
- Driver Name: In the menu, select the CData JDBC Driver for Odoo.
- User Name: Enter the username. This can also be defined in the JDBC URL.
- Password: Enter the password. This can also be defined in the JDBC URL.
- JDBC URL: Specify 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.
  👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
  
  A typical JDBC URL is the following:
```
jdbc:odoo:User=MyUser;Password=MyPassword;URL=http://MyOdooSite/;Database=MyDatabase;
```

👁 Required connection properties defined in the JDBC URL. (Salesforce is shown.)

Query Odoo Data

To connect to Odoo data, right-click the connection in the Database node and click Connect. After the connection is established, you can expand it to discover schema information.

To load a table in the Data Views window, right-click the table and then click View Data. You can also insert, update, or delete records in the Data Views window.

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

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URL: https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/odoo-jdbc-netbeans.rst