Introduction

This document describes the API used to upgrade an Odoo database to a higher version.

It allows a database to be upgraded without ressorting to the html form at https://upgrade.odoo.com Although the database will follow the same process described on that form.

The required steps are:

  • creating a request
  • uploading a database dump
  • running the upgrade process
  • obtaining the status of the database request
  • downloading the upgraded database dump

The methods

Creating a database upgrade request

This action creates a database request with the following information:

  • your contract reference
  • your email address
  • the target version (the Odoo version you want to upgrade to)
  • the purpose of your request (test or production)
  • the database dump name (required but purely informative)
  • optionally the server timezone (for Odoo source version < 6.1)

The create method

https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/create

Creates a database upgrade request

Parameters
  • contract (str) -- (required) your enterprise contract reference
  • email (str) -- (required) your email address
  • target (str) -- (required) the Odoo version you want to upgrade to. Valid choices: 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0
  • aim (str) -- (required) the purpose of your upgrade database request. Valid choices: test, production.
  • filename (str) -- (required) a purely informative name for you database dump file
  • timezone (str) -- (optional) the timezone used by your server. Only for Odoo source version < 6.1
Returns
request result
Return type
json dictionary

The create method returns a json dictionary containing the following keys:

failures

The list of errors.

A list of dictionaries, each dictionary giving information about one particular error. Each dictionary can contain various keys depending of the type of error but you will always get the reason and the message keys:

  • reason: the error type
  • message: a human friendly message

Some possible keys:

  • code: a faulty value
  • value: a faulty value
  • expected: a list of valid values

See a sample output aside.

  • JSON
{
  "failures": [
    {
      "expected": [
        "6.0",
        "6.1",
        "7.0",
        "8.0",
      ],
      "message": "Invalid value \"5.0\"",
      "reason": "TARGET:INVALID",
      "value": "5.0"
    },
    {
      "code": "M123456-abcxyz",
      "message": "Can not find contract M123456-abcxyz",
      "reason": "CONTRACT:NOT_FOUND"
    }
  ]
}
request

If the create method is successful, the value associated to the request key will be a dictionary containing various information about the created request:

The most important keys are:

  • id: the request id
  • key: your private key for this request

These 2 values will be requested by the other methods (upload, process and status)

The other keys will be explained in the section describing the status method.

Sample script

Here are 2 examples of database upgrade request creation using:

  • one in the python programming language using the pycurl library
  • one in the bash programming language using curl (tool for transfering data using http) and jq (JSON processor):
  • Python
  • Bash
from urllib import urlencode
from io import BytesIO
import pycurl
import json

CREATE_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/create"
CONTRACT = "M123456-abcdef"
AIM = "test"
TARGET = "8.0"
EMAIL = "[email protected]"
FILENAME = "db_name.dump"

fields = dict([
    ('aim', AIM),
    ('email', EMAIL),
    ('filename', DB_SOURCE),
    ('contract', CONTRACT),
    ('target', TARGET),
])
postfields = urlencode(fields)

c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, CREATE_URL)
c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, postfields)
data = BytesIO()
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, data.write)
c.perform()

# transform output into a dict:
response = json.loads(data.getvalue())

# get http status:
http_code = c.getinfo(pycurl.HTTP_CODE)
c.close()

CONTRACT=M123456-abcdef
AIM=test
TARGET=8.0
EMAIL=[email protected]
FILENAME=db_name.dump
CREATE_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/create"
URL_PARAMS="contract=${CONTRACT}&aim=${AIM}&target=${TARGET}&email=${EMAIL}&filename=${FILENAME}"
curl -sS "${CREATE_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}" > create_result.json

# check for failures
failures=$(cat create_result.json | jq -r '.failures[]')
if [ "$failures" != "" ]; then
  echo $failures | jq -r '.'
  exit 1
fi

Uploading your database dump

This action upload your database dump.

The upload method

https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload

Uploads a database dump

Parameters
  • key (str) -- (required) your private key
  • request (str) -- (required) your request id
Returns
request result
Return type
json dictionary

The request id and the private key are obtained using the create method

The result is a json dictionary containing the list of failures, which should be empty if everything went fine.

  • Python
  • Bash
import os
import pycurl
from urllib import urlencode
from io import BytesIO
import json

UPLOAD_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload"
DUMPFILE = "openchs.70.cdump"

fields = dict([
    ('request', '10534'),
    ('key', 'Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=='),
])
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"}
postfields = urlencode(fields)

c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, UPLOAD_URL+"?"+postfields)
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
filesize = os.path.getsize(DUMPFILE)
c.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDSIZE, filesize)
fp = open(DUMPFILE, 'rb')
c.setopt(pycurl.READFUNCTION, fp.read)
c.setopt(
    pycurl.HTTPHEADER,
    ['%s: %s' % (k, headers[k]) for k in headers])

c.perform()
c.close()

UPLOAD_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload"
DUMPFILE="openchs.70.cdump"
KEY="Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=="
REQUEST_ID="10534"
URL_PARAMS="key=${KEY}&request=${REQUEST_ID}"
HEADER="Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
curl -H $HEADER --data-binary "@${DUMPFILE}" "${UPLOAD_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}"

Asking to process your request

This action ask the Upgrade Platform to process your database dump.

The process method

https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/process

Process a database dump

Parameters
  • key (str) -- (required) your private key
  • request (str) -- (required) your request id
Returns
request result
Return type
json dictionary

The request id and the private key are obtained using the create method

The result is a json dictionary containing the list of failures, which should be empty if everything went fine.

  • Python
  • Bash
from urllib import urlencode
from io import BytesIO
import pycurl
import json

PROCESS_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/process"

fields = dict([
    ('request', '10534'),
    ('key', 'Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=='),
])
postfields = urlencode(fields)

c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, PROCESS_URL)
c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, postfields)
data = BytesIO()
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, data.write)
c.perform()

# transform output into a dict:
response = json.loads(data.getvalue())

# get http status:
http_code = c.getinfo(pycurl.HTTP_CODE)
c.close()

PROCESS_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/process"
KEY="Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=="
REQUEST_ID="10534"
URL_PARAMS="key=${KEY}&request=${REQUEST_ID}"
curl -sS "${PROCESS_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}"

Obtaining your request status

This action ask the status of your database upgrade request.

The status method

https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/status

Ask the status of a database upgrade request

Parameters
  • key (str) -- (required) your private key
  • request (str) -- (required) your request id
Returns
request result
Return type
json dictionary

The request id and the private key are obtained using the create method

The result is a json dictionary containing various information about your database upgrade request.

  • Python
  • Bash
from urllib import urlencode
from io import BytesIO
import pycurl
import json

STATUS_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/status"

fields = dict([
    ('request', '10534'),
    ('key', 'Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=='),
])
postfields = urlencode(fields)

c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, PROCESS_URL)
c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, postfields)
data = BytesIO()
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, data.write)
c.perform()

# transform output into a dict:
response = json.loads(data.getvalue())

c.close()

STATUS_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/status"
KEY="Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=="
REQUEST_ID="10534"
URL_PARAMS="key=${KEY}&request=${REQUEST_ID}"
curl -sS "${PROCESS_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}"

Sample output

The request key contains various useful information about your request:

id
the request id
key
your private key
email
the email address you supplied when creating the request
target
the target Odoo version you supplied when creating the request
aim
the purpose (test, production) of your database upgrade request you supplied when creating the request
filename
the filename you supplied when creating the request
timezone
the timezone you supplied when creating the request
state
the state of your request
issue_stage
the stage of the issue we have create on Odoo main server
issue
the id of the issue we have create on Odoo main server
status_url
the URL to access your database upgrade request html page
notes_url
the URL to get the notes about your database upgrade
original_sql_url
the URL used to get your uploaded (not upgraded) database as an SQL stream
original_dump_url
the URL used to get your uploaded (not upgraded) database as an archive file
upgraded_sql_url
the URL used to get your upgraded database as an SQL stream
upgraded_dump_url
the URL used to get your upgraded database as an archive file
modules_url
the URL used to get your custom modules
filesize
the size of your uploaded database file
database_uuid
the Unique ID of your database
created_at
the date when you created the request
estimated_time
an estimation of the time it takes to upgrade your database
processed_at
time when your database upgrade was started
elapsed
the time it takes to upgrade your database
filestore
your attachments were converted to the filestore
customer_message
an important message related to your request
database_version
the guessed Odoo version of your uploaded (not upgraded) database
postgresql
the guessed Postgresql version of your uploaded (not upgraded) database
compressions
the compression methods used by your uploaded database
  • JSON
{
  "failures": [],
  "request": {
    "id": 10534,
    "key": "Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "target": "8.0",
    "aim": "test",
    "filename": "db_name.dump",
    "timezone": null,
    "state": "draft",
    "issue_stage": "new",
    "issue": 648398,
    "status_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/status",
    "notes_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/upgraded/notes",
    "original_sql_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/original/sql",
    "original_dump_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/original/archive",
    "upgraded_sql_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/upgraded/sql",
    "upgraded_dump_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/upgraded/archive",
    "modules_url": "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/eu1/10534/Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ==/modules/archive",
    "filesize": "912.99 Kb",
    "database_uuid": null,
    "created_at": "2015-09-09 07:13:49",
    "estimated_time": null,
    "processed_at": null,
    "elapsed": "00:00",
    "filestore": false,
    "customer_message": null,
    "database_version": null,
    "postgresql": "9.4",
    "compressions": [
      "pgdmp_custom",
      "sql"
    ]
  }
}