Connect to Odoo Data in RazorSQL

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

Connect to Odoo from wizards and query Odoo data from the GUI in the RazorSQL database management tool.

The CData JDBC Driver for Odoo enables standards-based access from third-party tools, from wizards in IDEs to data management and analysis tools. This article shows how to connect to Odoo using wizards in RazorSQL.

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 Data

Open the RazorSQL application and, in the Connections menu, select Add Connection Profile -> Other -> JDBC.
In the Connection Wizard that appears, set the following properties:
- Driver Location: Set this property to the path to the lib subfolder in the installation directory.
- Driver Class: Set the driver class to cdata.jdbc.odoo.OdooDriver.
- Username: Enter the username. (This property can also be set in the JDBC URL.)
- Password: Enter the password. (This property can also be set in the JDBC URL.)
- JDBC URL: Enter connection parameters. The JDBC URL begins 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 the following:
```
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. Connection properties are defined in the JDBC URL. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Query Odoo Data and Select Tables

After establishing a connection, the wizard will close and the connection will be available in the connections panel. You can then query the tables.

👁 The resuls of a query in RazorSQL. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Ready to get started?

Download a free trial of the Odoo Driver to get started:

Download Now

Learn more:

👁 Odoo Icon
Odoo JDBC Driver

Rapidly create and deploy powerful Java applications that integrate with Odoo ERP data, including Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Accounts, and more!

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