This commit introduces the 'rainbowification' feature to the web client
(and to some affected addons). This feature is essentially a way to
display a nice friendly message when some business event happens. For
example, a encouraging message is displayed when the user clear her/his
inbox, or when a salesman closes a deal.
The mechanism currently only displays a 'rainbowman', but could be
extended later to add other kind of animation.
There are a few different ways to display a 'rainbowman':
- any JS code can simply trigger_up an event ('show_effect') with some
options: for example
this.trigger_up('show_effect', {
type: 'rainbow_man',
fadeout: 'no',
message: $done,
click_close: false,
});
- an action returned by the server can have an 'effect' key, with some
options
- the do_execute_action method accepts a 'effect' option. This is
useful when one wants to specify a rainbow on an action button in a
form view
Joint work with: dbh <dbh@odoo.com>, ged <ged@odoo.com>
* web_editor, web_tour, website_event_track
Before this commit, one JS file was responsible for all the library
extensions and fixes. There were two main problems with this system:
- The file was only available in the backend (as some extensions are
made on backend-only libraries).
- Some other modules were doing library customizations.
This commit creates one file per library to regroup their associated
customization and adds them in the right asset. These are placed in
the web module and every other module should avoid doing customizations.
This allows to have libraries consistency accross all modules and
between the backend and the frontend.
In the list controller, some code to determine the active domain to
export was causing a crash. It was easy to see: just select all records
in a list view, then click on 'Export' in the sidebar.
Note that the data_export code is still quite old, and did evolve
organically. It does not conform to our new design principles, in
particular, the way component should communicate. But this is a task for
another day.
With this commit, we introduce a benchmarking infrastructure: a new
controller, accessible at the route /web/benchmarks which will render a
new template (web.benchmark_suite).
This template uses benchmark.js and qunit.js to display a list of
benchmarking informations. For example, the number of op/s for
instantiating and destroying a list view.
I hope that this is the start of the beginning of taking the habit to
check our JS code performance sometimes, and making sure we do not have
large regression without a good reason.
Since the new views merge, a lot of design elements were broken. This
was particularly impacting the fields in the editable list view; indeed
the editable list view is not using an inline form view anymore so the
fields in the list were not properly styled as the LESS was still
defined assuming the form view environment (for example the invalid
fields were red for o2m fields in form view but not in editable list
view even though they got the right CSS class).
This commit refactor the LESS following these rules:
- No more division of non-layout and layout rules. Dividing LESS rules
in x_layout.less and x.less was a mistake. Many rules can be
considered to be layout and not layout at the same time, developers
always have to switch from one file part to the other, many CSS
selectors (and rules!) are duplicated for nothing, ...
- Field style is extracted from x_view.less and put in the new
fields.less file. As before, the fields_extra.less will contain the
rules specific to community so that the enterprise repo can override
those by replacing the whole file.
- Many classes have been renamed so that o_form_x_y becomes o_x_y as
many classes can now be applied outside of form view. These classes
should not be used in templates anyway.
The commit also changes the DOM of fields so that it is more minimalist
(no useless parent div, etc).
Input elements are not automatically styled anymore, they have to get
the o_input class explicitely. This allows to fix lots of small style
bugs of previous versions (required monetary field had not the proper
style, readonly m2m tags appeared as editable, ...). This also improves
the LESS code.
The editable list view should also completely stop flickering on chrome
and firefox.
The commit also removes the orange outline on list view dirty cells.
The commit also removes deprecated static xml, LESS and other code.
Notice there are still styles to restore/fix and LESS to improve.
We changed the do_action method recently: before, it was calling
recursively its parent, now it simply triggers up an event. We also
moved it to the 'services' mixin. However, we did not properly connect
the 'on_success' option: it is not an option for the view manager, but
for the abstract web client. As such, it should not be in the options
parameter, but it should simply be a key in the event payload.
This commit was found by solving the two following issues:
- open sale application, click on 'Inbox' icon to go to discuss,
Discuss is opened, but the navbar stays with sales application
- after installing module website_crm_partner_assign in kanban view for apps,
it does not reload...
Both of these were caused by the need to do something after a do_action,
and the deferred was not resolved at all.
The views can specify js (and css) libraries to lazy load when
they are instantiated for the first time. The previous
implementation was too naive as it always loaded the specified
libraries in parallel. However, it may happen (e.g. gantt view)
that some of those libraries depend on other ones.
This commit implements a mechanism to handle libs dependencies
between each other. For instance, specifying:
js_libs: [
['a', 'b'],
['c'],
],
will load 'a' and 'b' in parallel, but wait for them to be
loaded before loading 'c'.
The new implementation still supports the old syntax. So,
js_libs: ['a', 'b', 'c'],
will load 'a', 'b' and 'c' in parallel.
With this commit, we introduce a new way to perform a RPC. During the
history of the Odoo web client, many ways to do a rpc have been
introduced, for various reasons. Let us mention the Model class (to
perform a call on a specific method from a model, the web.ajax module
(low level primitive), the dataset.call method, the this.rpc method (was
removed at some point), the session.rpc method and maybe some others.
With this commit, we reintroduce the this.rpc method, with a
'mid-level' API: not really high level (not automatic domain/context
calculations), but still higher level than direct web.ajax calls.
This new method is intended to replace all other RPCs in Odoo web
client. Of course, web.ajax will still be available, but it is
discouraged to use it directly. Using the rpc method means that the
rpcs are done through an event bubbling up, which means that the call is
testable.
This commit introduce a full redesign of all JS views. We started
basically from scratch. The goal was to unify all the various views
under a common framework, to make them testable, to make then usable in
different conditions (in studio, or in the frontend), and to make our
lives easier.
Some important points are:
- we introduced new coding guidelines (camelCase, 80 chars width, ...)
- we have a brand new testing framework (still QUnit based)
- kanban view moved to the web addon
- calendar view (formerly web_calender) moved to web as well
- the tree view was removed
- all new code should be documented
We hope that this code is the start of a new era for the Odoo web
client, we want to have a high quality codebase, well documented, well
tested, well designed.
Work done by the framework team: mostly aab, ged, chm, dmo, qsm
In v8, it was not allowed to create a DB with a name containing a space.
This should still be the case from v9 since it causes issuesfor backup
scripts, for example.
Reintroduces 1a0e9063d4
opw-727613
qdp-odoo