Obtaining an empty recordset for a different model

When writing Odoo code, the methods of the current model are available through self. If you need to work on a different model, it is not possible to directly instantiate the class of that model; you need to get a recordset for that model to start working.

This recipe shows you how to get an empty recordset for any model that's registered in Odoo inside a model method.

Getting ready

This recipe will reuse the setup of the library example in the my_library add-on module.

We will write a small method in the library.book model and search for all library.members. To do this, we need to get an empty recordset for library.members.

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