This was added in master-apiculture at f1f16a8 to
permit special function fields that return
structured JSON-like data.
This is unnecessary and caused typing problems, for
example for the type field of ir.model.fields, or
when you decide to store them.
It is simpler to explicitly declare these fields
as fields.Char and have them serialize their results
to JSON strings, or to declate them as fields.Binary
and return any opaque data they want.
In the previous implementation of the new API fields,
both fields.Selection and fields.Reference were performing
early validation of their `value` as soon as it entered
the cache, either by being read, written, or computed.
This is a source of trouble and performance problems,
and is unnecessary, as we should consider that the database
always contains valid values. If that is not the case it
means it was modified externally and is an exception that
should be handled externally as well.
Revalidating selection/reference values can be expensive
when the domain of values is dynamic and requires extra
database queries, with extra access rights control, etc.
This patch adds a `validate` parameter to `convert_to_cache`,
allowing to turn off the re-validation on demand. The ORM
will turn off validation whenever the value being converted
is supposed to be already validated, such as when reading it
from the database.
The parameter is currently ignored by all other fields,
and defaults to True so validation is performed in all other
caes.
A squashed merge is required as the conversion of the apiculture branch from
bzr to git was not correctly done. The git history contains irrelevant blobs
and commits. This branch brings a lot of changes and fixes, too many to list
exhaustively.
- New orm api, objects are now used instead of ids
- Environements to encapsulates cr uid context while maintaining backward compatibility
- Field compute attribute is a new object oriented way to define function fields
- Shared browse record cache
- New onchange protocol
- Optional copy flag on fields
- Documentation update
- Dead code cleanup
- Lots of fixes
Olivier Dony
sebalix
Raphael Collet