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:
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
- 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
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 = "john.doe@example.com"
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=john.doe@example.com
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 $failures | jq -r '.'
  exit 1
fi
Uploading your database dump
There are 2 methods to upload your database dump:
- the uploadmethod using the HTTPS protocol
- the request_sftp_accessmethod using the SFTP protocol
The upload method
It’s the most simple and most straightforward way of uploading your database dump. It uses the HTTPS protocol.
https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload
Uploads a database dump
The request id and the private key are obtained using the create method
The result is a JSON dictionary containing the list of failures, which
should be empty if everything went fine.
- Python
- Bash
import os
import pycurl
from urllib import urlencode
UPLOAD_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload"
DUMPFILE = "openchs.70.cdump"
fields = dict([
    ('request', '10534'),
    ('key', 'Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=='),
])
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"}
postfields = urlencode(fields)
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, UPLOAD_URL+"?"+postfields)
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
filesize = os.path.getsize(DUMPFILE)
c.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDSIZE, filesize)
fp = open(DUMPFILE, 'rb')
c.setopt(pycurl.READFUNCTION, fp.read)
c.setopt(
    pycurl.HTTPHEADER,
    ['%s: %s' % (k, headers[k]) for k in headers])
c.perform()
c.close()
UPLOAD_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/upload"
DUMPFILE="openchs.70.cdump"
KEY="Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=="
REQUEST_ID="10534"
URL_PARAMS="key=${KEY}&request=${REQUEST_ID}"
HEADER="Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
curl -H $HEADER --data-binary "@${DUMPFILE}" "${UPLOAD_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}"
The request_sftp_access method
This method is recommanded for big database dumps. It uses the SFTP protocol and supports resuming.
It will create a temporary SFTP server where you can connect to and allow you to upload your database dump using an SFTP client.
https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/request_sftp_access
Creates an SFTP server
The request id and the private key are obtained using the create method
The file listing your ssh public keys should be roughly similar to a standard authorized_keys file.
This file should only contains public keys, blank lines or comments (lines starting with the # character)
Your database upgrade request should be in the draft state.
The request_sftp_access method returns a JSON dictionary containing the following keys:
- Python
- Bash
import os
import pycurl
from urllib import urlencode
UPLOAD_URL = "https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/request_sftp_access"
SSH_KEYS="/path/to/your/authorized_keys"
fields = dict([
    ('request', '10534'),
    ('key', 'Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=='),
])
postfields = urlencode(fields)
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, UPLOAD_URL+"?"+postfields)
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
c.setopt(c.HTTPPOST,[("ssh_keys",
                        (c.FORM_FILE, SSH_KEYS,
                        c.FORM_CONTENTTYPE, "text/plain"))
                    ])
c.perform()
c.close()
REQUEST_SFTP_ACCESS_URL="https://upgrade.odoo.com/database/v1/request_sftp_access"
SSH_KEYS=/path/to/your/authorized_keys
KEY="Aw7pItGVKFuZ_FOR3U8VFQ=="
REQUEST_ID="10534"
URL_PARAMS="key=${KEY}&request=${REQUEST_ID}"
curl -sS "${REQUEST_SFTP_ACCESS_URL}?${URL_PARAMS}" -F ssh_keys=@${SSH_KEYS} > request_sftp_result.json
# check for failures
failures=$(cat request_sftp_result.json | jq -r '.failures[]')
if [ "$failures" != "" ]; then
  echo $failures | jq -r '.'
  exit 1
fi
failures
The list of errors. See failures for an explanation about the JSON dictionary returned in case of failure.
request
If the call is successful, the value associated to the request key will be a dictionary containing your SFTP connexion parameters:
- hostname: the host address to connect to
- sftp_port: the port to connect to
- sftp_user: the SFTP user to use for connecting
- shared_file: the filename you need to use (identical to the- filenamevalue you have used when creating the request in the create method.)
- request_id: the related upgrade request id (only informative, ,not required for the connection)
- sample_command: a sample command using the ‘sftp’ client
You should normally be able to connect using the sample command as is.
You will only have access to the shared_file. No other files will be
accessible and you will not be able to create new files in your shared
environment on the SFTP server.
Using the ‘sftp’ client
Once you have successfully connected using your SFTP client, you can upload your database dump. Here is a sample session using the ‘sftp’ client:
$ sftp -P 2200 user_10534@upgrade.odoo.com
Connected to upgrade.odoo.com.
sftp> put /path/to/openchs.70.cdump openchs.70.cdump
Uploading /path/to/openchs.70.cdump to /openchs.70.cdump
sftp> ls -l openchs.70.cdump
-rw-rw-rw-    0 0        0          849920 Aug 30 15:58 openchs.70.cdump
If your connection is interrupted, you can continue your file transfer using
the -a command line switch:
sftp> put -a /path/to/openchs.70.cdump openchs.70.cdump
Resuming upload of /path/to/openchs.70.cdump to /openchs.70.cdump
If you don’t want to manually type the command and need to automate your database upgrade using a script, you can use a batch file or pipe your commands to ‘sftp’:
echo "put /path/to/openchs.70.cdump openchs.70.cdump" | sftp -b - -P 2200 user_10534@upgrade.odoo.com
The -b parameter takes a filename. If the filename is -, it reads the commands from standard input.
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
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
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 "${STATUS_URL}?${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": "john.doe@example.com",
    "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"
    ]
  }
}
Downloading your database dump
Beside downloading your migrated database using the URL provided by the status method, you can also use the SFTP protocol as described in the request_sftp_access method
The diffence is that you’ll only be able to download the migrated database. No uploading will be possible.
Your database upgrade request should be in the done state.
Once you have successfully connected using your SFTP client, you can download your database dump. Here is a sample session using the ‘sftp’ client:
$ sftp -P 2200 user_10534@upgrade.odoo.com
Connected to upgrade.odoo.com.
sftp> get upgraded_openchs.70.cdump /path/to/upgraded_openchs.70.cdump
Downloading /upgraded_openchs.70.cdump to /path/to/upgraded_openchs.70.cdump