Odoo Development Cookbook

Call a method with a modified context

The context is part of the environment of a recordset. It is used to pass information such as the timezone or the language of the user from the user interface as well as contextual parameters specified in actions. A number of methods in the standard addons use the context to adapt their behavior to these values. It is sometimes necessary to modify the context on a recordset to get the desired results from a method call or the desired value for a computed field.

This recipe shows how to read the stock level for all product.product models in a given stock.location.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the stock and product addons. For our purposes, here is a simplified version of the product.product model:

class product.product(models.Model): ...