Connector Equipment

This module prepares Odoo to talk to an outside system, but it does not perform any real API call by itself: it only stores the connection information and provides empty placeholder methods meant to be completed later.

• A new screen called 'Backend Equipments' appears under the Maintenance configuration menu. There you create records with a name, host, port, user, password, protocol (HTTP/JSON or REST), client ID and client secret, and you can see the list of equipment linked to each backend.
• On the standard maintenance equipment form, a new 'Connector' tab shows two fields: 'Can be managed' and 'Backend Equipment'. This is where you attach an equipment to a backend and decide whether it should be managed.
• When an equipment is marked as 'Can be managed', saving it (on creation or on any later change) triggers the connector routine. In the current code that routine only calls an empty 'update_config' method that simply returns True, so no external action actually happens yet.
• The connector also contains branches for adding, updating, activating, suspending and removing services, but these methods are not defined in the module, so they cannot run as delivered.
• Access rights: all users can read backend equipment records; only maintenance equipment managers can create, edit or delete them.