OpenErpConnect is a connector to access OpenERP servers from Android devices.

It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. You can extend it and add extra functionality, if needed for your apps. This connector depends on the library android-xmlrpc, which can be found in http://code.google.com/p/android-xmlrpc/ This forum page inspired the creation of OpenErpConnect: http://www.openerp.com/forum/topic15581.html

Here are some examples on how to use it, (for more information see the source and its comments):

// Useful tips:

• Python dictionaries {} are mapped into HashMap Java objects and vice versa, so if you have to pass a dictionary to a WS, put the info in a HashMap.
• Python lists [] and tuples () can be treated in Java with arrays and Lists (Vector and ArrayList implementations work well)
• If you want to know which is the actual type of an Object to cast it properly, you can use getClass() and getName() as: objectInstance.getClass().getName()
• To cast an Object[] array into another type of array use the Arrays.copyOf() method, or you will probably get a ClassCastException
• In case that an Exception occurred null is returned. There are two exceptions for this: methods that return a Boolean (in which case null is not returned, we use false instead for more "logical" reasons) and browse() method that throws OpenErpException, because Java does not support output parameters.
• There exists a bug in OpenERP that returns the dictionaries of the read() method unordered. So, for those models in which we want them in a certain order we have to implement the Comparable interface int its Model class and order them.

// Debugging:

• A very good approach to debug is to check the value of the variable faultString in the file XMLRPCClient.java provided by the library this connector is based on. You can do this by putting a debug breakpoint at line ~350. This will show you the output of the OpenERP server with a possible error that otherwise would be hard to find.
• Also, do not forget to check the logs in your OpenERP server!

// Login: Connecting to the OpenERP server and getting a OpenErpConnect instance for successive calls. This does the login and stores the connection information into the instance, so you do not have to pass it every time. Note that using "localhost" as the OpenERP server will not be correct, as you are not likely to be running an OpenERP server in your Android device or emulator: OpenErpConnect oc = OpenErpConnect.connect("openerp_server", port_number, "my_db", "username", "user_pass");

// Create: HashMap<String, String> values = new HashMap<String, String>(); // If you need different types use HashMap<String, Object> values.put("name", "partner name"); HashMap<String, String> context = new HashMap<String, String>(); context.put("lang", "es_ES"); Integer partnerId = oc.create("res.partner", values, context); // context can be null, it is not needed

// Search examples, with full support for "Pythonic" conditions, but with Java syntax: Integer[] ids = oc.search("res.partner", new Object[0]); // Returns all the ids as the conditions varargs is empty Integer[] ids = oc.search("res.partner", new Object[] {"|", new Object[] {"name", "=", "Enric"}, new Object[] {"name", "!=", "ZZ"}});

// Simple Read: reading partner names: List<HashMap<String, Object>> list = oc.read("res.partner", new Integer[] {1, 2, 3}, new String[] {"name"}); String result = ""; for (HashMap<String, Object> item : list) { result += (String)item.get("name")+"\n"; }

// Complex Read of related objects: reading partners and addresses (as you will see, you always will use the same approach to work with related fields): String result = ""; List<HashMap<String, Object>> partners = oc.read("res.partner", new Integer[] {1, 2, 3}, new String[] {"id", "name", "address"}); for (HashMap<String, Object> partner : partners) { result += (Integer)partner.get("id") + " " + (String)partner.get("name") + " "; Object[] addressObjects = (Object[])partner.get("address"); if (addressObjects.length > 0) { Integer[] addresses = Arrays.copyOf(addressObjects, addressObjects.length, Integer[].class); List<HashMap<String, Object>> addressInfoList = oc.read("res.partner.address", addresses, new String[] {"street", "zip", "country_id"}); for (HashMap<String, Object> addressInfo : addressInfoList) { String street = (String)addressInfo.get("street"); String zip = (String)addressInfo.get("zip"); Object[] countryIdObjects = (Object[])addressInfo.get("country_id"); result += "street " + street + " zip " + zip + " country " + countryIdObjects[0] + " " + countryIdObjects[1] + " "; } } result += "\n"; }

// Simple write: HashMap<String, String> values = new HashMap<String, String>(); values.put("name", "category 2"); HashMap<String, String> context = new HashMap<String, String>(); context.put("lang", "es_ES"); Boolean writeOk = oc.write("res.partner.category", new Integer[] {2}, values, context);

// More complex write with Partner and Category m2m: HashMap<String, Object> values = new HashMap<String, Object>(); values.put("category_id", new Object[] {new Object[] {6, 0, new Object[] {1, 3}}}); Boolean writeOk = oc.write("res.partner", new Integer[] {62}, values, null);

// Unlink: Boolean unlinkOk = oc.unlink("res.partner", new Integer[] {54, 55});

Note that in the examples so far we use newly created array for ids, but we can use the result of a previous search, for example: Integer[] idsToUnlink = oc.search("res.partner", new Object[] {new Object[] {"name", "=", "ZZ"}}); Boolean unlinkOk = oc.unlink("res.partner", idsToUnlink); Or even: Boolean unlinkOk = oc.unlink("res.partner", oc.search("res.partner", new Object[] {"name", "=", "ZZ"})); // Be careful if null is returned by search()

// Browse: List resultList = new ArrayList(); oc.browse("res.partner", ResPartner.class, new Integer[] {45, 55}, ResPartner.getAtrributeNames(), resultList); String result = ""; for (ResPartner partner : resultList) { result += partner.toString()+"\n"; }

In order for this browse to work we created the following example class: public class ResPartner {

private String mName; // Just for testing, we work with one attribute

public ResPartner(HashMap<String, ?> values) { // The public constructor with a HashMap parameter is obligatory
    mName = (String)values.get("name");
}

public static List<String> getAtrributeNames() { // This is highly recommended to do not hardcode the list of attributes to retrieve
    List<String> attributeNames = new ArrayList<String>(1);
    attributeNames.add("name");
    return attributeNames;
}

public String toString() {
    return mName;
}

}