Odoo Development Cookbook

Chapter 6. Advanced Server Side Development Techniques

In this chapter, we will see how to:

• Change the user performing an action
• Call a method with a modified context
• Execute raw SQL queries
• Write a wizard to guide the user
• Define onchange methods
• Call onchange methods on the server side
• Port old API code to the new API

Introduction

In Chapter 5, Basic Server Side Development, we saw how to write methods on a model class, how to extend methods from inherited models, and how to work with recordsets. This chapter deals with more advanced topics such as working with the environment of a recordset and working with onchange methods.