Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Environment attributes

We can inspect the current environment with the following code:

>>> self.env
<openerp.api.Environment object at 0xb3f4f52c>

The execution environment in self.env has the following attributes available:

• env.cr is the database cursor being used.
• env.user is the record for the current user.
• env.uid is the ID for the session user. It's the same as env.user.id.
• env.context is an immutable dictionary with a session context.

The environment also provides access to the registry where all of the installed models are available. For example, self.env['res.partner'] returns a reference to the partner model. We can then use search() or browse() on it to retrieve recordsets:

>>> self.env['res.partner'].search([('name', 'like', ...