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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200067
Pages 548 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Reis Daniel Reis
Profile icon Daniel Reis

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode 3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application 5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules 6. Section 2: Models
7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data 8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data 9. Section 3: Business Logic
10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data 11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Section 4: Views
14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface 15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb 17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features 18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance
19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models 20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Querying data with recordsets and domains

Odoo business logic will need to read data from the database to perform actions based on it. This is done through recordsets, which query the raw data and expose it as Python objects we can manipulate.

Odoo Python will usually be running in a class method, where self represents the recordset to work with. In some cases, we need to create recordsets for other models. For that, we should get a reference to the models and then query it to create the recordset.

The environment object, usually accessible as self.env, holds references to all the models available, and these can be accessed using dictionary-like syntax. For example, to get a reference to the partner model, use self.env['res.partner'] or self.env.get('res.partner'). This model reference can then be used to create recordsets, as we will see next.

Creating recordsets

The search() method takes a domain expression and returns a recordset with the records...

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