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Odoo 12 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 12 Development Essentials Fast-track your Odoo development skills to build powerful business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532470
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application 4. Extending Modules 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. Models – Structuring the Application Data 7. Recordsets – Working with Model Data 8. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 9. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 10. Backend Views – Designing the User Interface 11. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 12. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 13. Creating Website Frontend Features 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

More Model inheritance mechanisms

Previously, we saw the basic extension of Models, called classic inheritance, in the official documentation. This is the most frequent use of inheritance, and the easiest way to think about it is as an in-place extension. You take a Model and extend it. As you add new features, they are added to the existing Model. A new Model isn't created.

We can also inherit from multiple parent Models, setting a list of values to the _inherit attribute. Most of the time, this is done with mixin classes. Mixin classes are Models that implement generic features to be reused. They are not expected to be used on their own, like regular Models, and are like a container of features, ready to be added to other Models.

If, along with _inherit, we also use the _name attribute with a value different from the parent Model, we get a new Model by reusing the...

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