DEPRECATION NOTICE: we switch to xsdata for XML data binding, and I created an odoo generator for xsdata https://github.com/akretion/xsdata-odoo While generateDS served us well, we prefer xsdata a lot: its code is way cleaner and more tested. So we won't maintain this generateDS plugin anymore.

This plugin has been developed by Raphaël Valyi from Akretion and was derived from the official Django generateDS plugin that is documented here: http://www.davekuhlman.org/generateDS.html#django-generating-models-and-forms

This Odoo plugin generate only models. Odoo is able to generate views dynamically alone and we also made the dedicated spec_driven_model Odoo module to help with views. You can read how it evolved from the Django plugin by looking at the commits log.

Disclaimer: we know this code doesn't really look like modern Python. But this is an assumed choice: we prefer not changing the code too much from the original Django plugin so if generateDS evolves it will be easier to follow the changes here.

Although, there are likely other configurations that will work, one reasonably simple way is the following:

1. Install generateDS:

   $ pip install generateDS

2. Download the source distribution of generateds-odoo with the following:

   $ git clone https://github.com/akretion/generateds-odoo

3. Change directory to the django directory (i.e. the directory containing this file):

   $ cd generateds/django

4. In that directory, either, (a) create, a symbolic link to generateDS.py:

   $ ln -s ../generateDS.py

   Or, (b) copy generateDS.py to that directory:

   $ cp ../generateDS.py .

5. In that directory, Run gends_run_gen_odoo.py. For example:

   $ # Brazilian electronic invoice:
   $ python3 gends_run_gen_odoo.py -f -l nfe -x 4_00 -e '^ICMS\d+|^ICMSSN\d+' -d . -v /tmp/generated/schemas/nfe/v4_00/leiauteNFe_v4.00.xsd
   $
   $ # UBL 2.3 invoice:
   $ python3 gends_run_gen_odoo.py -f -l ubl -x 23 -d . -v /home/rvalyi/DEV/UBL-2.3/xsd/maindoc/UBL-Invoice-2.3.xsd

If the above ran successfully, it should have created these files:

leiauteNFe_v400lib.py
UBL-Invoice-23lib.py