Add dependencies from additional module repositories

[pcastelovigo]

Hi, I've recently installed Runboat (thanks for this amazing software!) but I'm running into a small issue.

I can't find a way to add dependencies from modules in other repositories. I found some documentation regarding the oca_dependencies.txt file, but it seems it has been deprecated.

https://odoo-community.org/groups/contributors-15/contributors-1927945?mode=thread&date_begin=&date_end=

Is there a way to tell Runboat to fetch additional modules from other repositories, or do all required modules have to be in the same repository?

How does the official Runboat instance handle this, for example, when downloading the dependencies that OCA/edi modules have on OCA/server-tools?

Thanks in advance.

[pcastelovigo]

I managed to figure how to do it using whool, but some docs would be great.

[ivs-cetmix]

I managed to figure how to do it using whool

Hi @pcastelovigo would be great to have something "I managed to figure how to do it using whool and here are the steps:" 😉

[pcastelovigo]

Whool is already installed inside oca-ci images ( https://github.com/OCA/oca-ci )

You need to put a pyproject.toml file next to manifest.py with this content

[build-system]
requires = ["whool"]
build-backend = "whool.buildapi"

pipx run whool init willl generate it automagically ( https://github.com/sbidoul/whool )

Now that module will 'ignore regular depedency system'
You need to add a setup/_metapackage/pyproject.toml file in the root of the repo

[project]
name = "example"
version = "16"
dependencies = [
    "ovh",
    "base_business_document_import @ git+https://github.com/OCA/edi.git@16.0#subdirectory=base_business_document_import",
]
classifiers = [
    "Programming Language :: Python",
    "Framework :: Odoo",
    "Framework :: Odoo :: 16.0",
]

I did it that way, not sure if there is a better way.

ovh is a pypi package ( https://pypi.org/project/ovh/ ) and base_business_document_import is a module dependency that is not in my repo and is not in pypi in v16

As we said, that module will 'ignore regular dependency system' so other deps will fail even if they are in your own repo, so you can add to those other modules the pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["whool"]
build-backend = "whool.buildapi"

And then add a test-constraints.txt file in the root of the repo

odoo-addon-account_invoice_download @ file:///mnt/data/odoo-addons-dir/account_invoice_download

This way i managed to run CI on modules on my repo that depends both on modules on the same repo and on modules on OCA repos.

I repeat im not sure if this is the way or if there is a more canonical way, but it just worked

[sbidoul]

Hello,

Actually, this question is more about the oca/oca-ci image than runboat. The runboat default kubefiles rely on the installation script of that image, but you can totally use another one if you want.

In short if the addons your repo depends on are on PyPI, which is the case for all OCA addons, there is nothing to do, they will be installed automatically.

If you depend on addons in custom repos, one possibility is to add a pyproject.toml in each of them (as you did), and reference them as git references in test-requirements.txt at the root of the repo you test. There is an explanation about that.

If you depend on other PyPI modules, such as ovh you need to declare them in the external_dependencies section of your addons. They will be installed automatically.

setup/_metapackage/pyproject.toml should not be necessary.

[sbidoul]

I created an issue in oca/oca-ci to add documentation about this. OCA/oca-ci#91

[ivs-cetmix]

@pcastelovigo @sbidoul thank you for the explanation!