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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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More model inheritance mechanisms

The previous section discussed classic inheritance, which can be seen as an in-place extension. This is the most frequently used approach, but the Odoo framework also supports a few other extension mechanisms that are useful in other cases.

These are delegation inheritance, prototype inheritance, and the use of mixins:

  • Delegation inheritance embeds another model in the inheriting one. For example, a User record embeds a Partner record, so that a User record has all the fields available for the Partner records, plus the fields specific to the User records. It is used through the _inherits attribute.
  • Prototype inheritance creates a new model by copying the features from the inherited model and has a database table and data. It is not used often and it is never used in the Odoo-included add-on modules. It is used to set _inherit with the model to copy and the _name attribute with the identifier for the new model to be created.
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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