Profiling Python code

Sometimes, you will be unable to pinpoint the cause of an issue. This is especially true of performance issues. Odoo provides some built-in profiling tools that help you find the real cause of an issue.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to do this recipe:

1. Odoo's profiler is available at odoo/tools/profiler.py. In order to use the profiler in your code, import it into the file:

   from odoo.tools.profiler import profile

2. After importing it, you can use the profile decorator on the methods. To profile a particular method, you need to add the profile decorator to it. Take a look at the following example. We put the profile decorator in the make_available method:

       @profile
       def make_available(self):
           if self.state != 'lost':
               self.write({'state': 'available...