documentation/wowl_markdown_doc/global_odoo_object.md

Global odoo object

Overview

Whenever the odoo web client is loaded on a page, a special global variable odoo will be set in the page. This object contains a few useful methods/entities. These values are there for information, integration or debugging purposes, and are not to be used by business code.

// in browser console (opened with F12)
console.log(odoo);
// will display an object looking like this:
// {
//   info: {...},
//   __DEBUG__: {...}
// }

Exported Values

Here is an explanation of what each exported values are:

• info: this is an object which contains a few informations about the odoo server that we are connected to.

  • db (string): the technical name of the current postgres database
  • server_version (string): a short string describing the version of the odoo code currently running. It may look like this: 14.1alpha1.
  • server_version_info ((string|number)[]): the server_version string is not easy to parse/consume, so the server_version_info key is exported as well. It is an array looking like this: [14, 1, 0, "alpha", 1, ""]

• __DEBUG__: this object contains values that are useful to debug/play with the odoo application, but that should not be accessed in real code

  • root (Component): this is the main web client instance