setuptools-odoo broken with setuptools >= 31.0.0 for Odoo 10

[sbidoul]

This affects Odoo 10.

Symptom is

$ odoo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sbi-local/.virtualenvs/odoo-10c/bin/odoo", line 17, in <module>
    odoo.cli.main()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'cli'

This is apparently due to the *-nspkg.pth files creating a dummy odoo package before the python program starts, therefore making import odoo do nothing and preventing odoo/__init__.py from being properly executed.

Until a workaround is found, stick to "setuptools<31" to build wheels.

[sbidoul]

Wheels on wheelhouse.odoo-community.org/oca are unaffected so far.

[sbidoul]

A possible workaround: acsone/odoo@a5b490c

[adrienpeiffer]

acsone/odoo@a5b490c works for me

[eLBati]

Patch works for me too.
Shouldn't this be fixed in odoo itself?
Is there an open issue or PR already?
Thanks

[sbidoul]

@eLBati I just submitted odoo/odoo#15718

[sbidoul]

As a better alternative to odoo/odoo#15718 I implemented an automatic patching mechanism in odoo-autodiscover: acsone/odoo-autodiscover#3.

If you want to test with Odoo 10, just pip install git+https:/acsone/odoo-autodiscover@autopatch-sbi. After that from odoo import cli, api should work just fine in all circumstances (setuptools versions, with our without editable packages etc).

Feedback welcome.

[sbidoul]

odoo-autodiscover 2.0.0b1 is on pypi. People impacted by this issue can test if pip install "odoo-autodiscover >=2.0.0b1" resolves the issue.

[eLBati]

@sbidoul Hi,

after having installed odoo-autodiscover==2.0.0, I successfully installed an OCA module and I can run odoo without getting the error.

If I build my custom module with setuptools-odoo-make-default -d . and python setup.py bdist_wheel and install it, running odoo I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/odoo", line 8, in <module>
    odoo.cli.main()
AttributeError: module 'odoo' has no attribute 'cli'

Do you build OCA modules differently?

Thanks

[sbidoul]

Hi @eLBati,

That should work.

Can you provide a bit more details? eg result of pip list? How exactly do you install and launch Odoo?

[eLBati]

Hi @sbidoul after checking all involved packages, it seems I did not update wheel
Thanks

[JonathanNEMRY]

Hello @sbidoul
I face the same error but into a different context: is it possible that this bug appears again with odoo11 and python3.0? After having installed from a wheel's directory everythings seems well installed (pip list seems OK) but when I try to launch "odoo" I have this same error:
AttributeError: module 'odoo' has no attribute 'cli'
Do you have any idea ?

many thanks

[sbidoul]

Hi Jonathan! AFAIK this problem does not occur on v11 with python 3. By chance would you have some remaining __init__.py in odoo or odoo/addons directories? They must all be removed (except in odoo itself).

[JonathanNEMRY]

Actually I already fixed this point.
But One important thing is that my project works well in local, all installed is fine, but when I build the wheels and try to install from them then my odoo is not runable with this error. So my conclusion is that something is wrong from

• the way I install from the wheels ...small chance
• the whells are not well build as it should be

Hope you can see what am I doing wrong with those informations

thanks again

[sbidoul]

Hope you can see what am I doing wrong with those informations

Unfortunately not. Look in sys.path everywhere you have and odoo directory. Only one of them must have a __init__.py (odoo's of course).

[JonathanNEMRY]

OK so I cleaned all my project restarting into new environements defining a quick-step to reproduce the error:

• quick create an odoo python project with mrbob acsoo:templates/project (with recent fix about the python3 compatibility)
• cd new project and mkvirtualenv --python=python3_path project_env
• then install the project with pip install -r requirement-dev after what you can generated the requirements.txt
• now run odoo command: it perfectly works
• launch acsoo wheel --> release is well created with all its required packages (tested with fresh setuptools and also with a old version like 28.0
• now create into an other directory a simple python3 venv
• go into it and launch pip install --no-deps --no-index your_project/release/*.whl
  --> everything will be ok: your pip list, your installation but when trying to launch odoo command then it crash by saying there is no attribute cli to the odoo package 😞

[JonathanNEMRY]

@sbidoul when you say Only one of them must have a __init__.py (odoo's of course). --> it is true when generating the wheels but at the end, after installing them, the init of the odoo is not the same anymore...is is only a declaration of package instead of the real init file of Odoo...replacing it by the original allow us to launch the odoo application 😮

[sbidoul]

I very much doubt it's a bug in setuptools-odoo. Must be something in your environment.

[sufyanel]

I'm facing exactly the same issue as @JonathanNEMRY

[sbidoul]

Can you provide a minimal project (setup.py, etc) with a detailed procedure to reproduce?