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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with recordsets


We will now explore how the ORM works and learn about the most common operations performed with it. We will use the prompt provided by the shell command to interactively explore how recordsets work.

Querying models

Inside a method or a shell session, self represents the current model, and we can only access that model's  records. To access other models, we should use self.env. For example, self.env['res.partner'] returns a reference to the Partners model (which is actually an empty recordset). We can then use search() or browse() on it to generate recordsets.

The search() method takes a domain expression and returns a recordset with the records matching those conditions. An empty domain [] will return all records.

Note

If the model has the active special field, by default only the records with active=True will be considered.

A few optional keyword arguments are available, as shown here:

  • order is a string to be used as the ORDER BY clause in the database query. This is usually...