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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

The ORM method decorators


In the Odoo Python code encountered so far, we can see that decorators, such as @api.multi, are frequently used in model methods. These are important for the ORM and allow it to give those methods specific uses.

Let's review the ORM decorators we have available and when each should be used.

Methods for recordsets – @api.multi

Most of the time, we want a custom method to perform some actions on a recordset. For this, we should use @api.multi, and in that case, the self argument will be the recordset to work with. The method's logic will usually include a for loop iterating on it. This is surely the most frequently used decorator.

Note

If no decorator is used on a model method, it will default to  @api.multi behavior.

Methods for singleton records – @api.one

In some cases, the method is prepared to work with a single record (a singleton). Here, we could use the  @api.one decorator that's still available, but announced as deprecated since Odoo 9. It wraps the decorated method...

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