Changing the user that performs an action

When writing business logic code, you may have to perform some actions with a different security context. A typical case is performing an action with the rights of the Administrator, who bypasses security checks.

This recipe will show you how to let normal users modify the phone number of a company by using sudo().

Getting ready

For a an easier to understand, we will add a new model to manage the book ratings. We will add a new model called library.book.rent. You can refer to the following definition to add this model:

class LibraryBookRent(models.Model):
    _name = 'library.book.rent'

    book_id = fields.Many2one('library.book', 'Book', required=True...