Thanks Paul, that's all I needed to know. Cheers,
On Oct 22, 3:28 pm, Paul J Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-10-21 17:23, sdistefano wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm looking into adding some functionality to tryton for my business. > > I would need to customize existing modules quite heavily, and add > > code to them to connect to other systems. I'm wondering what is the > > tryton way to do this. > > I was in that situation myself. Rather than starting off with > customizing tryton though, I began by building middle-ware to sit > in-between the 'other systems' and tryton. Since a lot of my > provisioning tools were already xmlrpc enabled, building something that > could talk xmlrpc to tryton on the one hand, and xmlrpc to my other > interfaces on the other was fairly straightforward. Using Proteus this > has even become completely trivial. > > Of course there will always be things you need modified in tryton proper: > > > Can I, for example, subclass an entire module? Otherwise, what is the > > recommended way of expanding the functionality of those modules that > > already exist? > > Extending models and views is well understood: > > say you want to customize the Party model. You then create a new class > with the same name in your local module: > > class Party(ModelSQL, ModelView): > """Party""" > _name='party.party' > # add your own additional fields > contracts = fields.One2Many('contract.contract', > 'party', 'Contracts', > readonly=True) > > Party() > > Extending views is equally straightforward: > > http://doc.tryton.org/1.6/trytond/doc/topics/views/extension.html#top... > > If you want to override behaviour of existing methods, you should look > at the _inherits attribute: > > http://doc.tryton.org/1.6/trytond/doc/ref/models/models.html#trytond.... > > In that case you define your own Model type which has full access to the > inherited model. In this case however you need to hook-up the new model > to the menu and create all views (which may inherit views from other > models). > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl -- [email protected] mailing list
