Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating and deleting records

The write() method is used to write dates on existing records. But we also need to create and delete records. This is done using the create() and unlink() model methods.

The create() method takes a dictionary with the fields and values for the record to be created, using the same syntax as write(). Default values are automatically applied as expected, which is shown here:

>>> Partner = self.env['res.partner']
>>> new = Partner.create({'name': 'ACME', 'is_company': True})
>>> print(new)
res.partner(59,)>>> print(new.customer)  # customer flag is True by defaultTrue

The unlink() method deletes the records in the recordset, as shown here:

>>> rec = Partner.search([('name', '=', 'ACME')])
>>> rec.unlink()2018-11-02 ...