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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

Context and domain


We have stumbled upon context and domain several times. We have seen that window actions are able to set them and relational fields in models can also have them as attributes.

Context data

The context is a dictionary carrying session data that can be used on both the client-side user interface and the server-side ORM and business logic.

On the client side it can carry information from one view to next, such as the ID of the record active on the previous view, after following a link or a button, or to provide default values to be used in the next view.

On the server side, some recordset field values can depend on the locale settings provided by the context. In particular the lang key affects the value of translatable fields. Context can also provide signals for server-side code. For example, the active_test key when set to False changes the behavior of ORM's search() method so that it does not filter out inactive records.

An initial context from the web client looks like this...

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