The new API introduced a small behavior change where empty
string values written or stored in a char/text field were
replaced by False (i.e. as if they were NULL).
This was done to mimic the web client behavior, but introduces
a very surprising effect: a.name = ""; assert a.name == "";
would fail. It would also require many more tests in the
code when reading existing required values from the database,
as they could still be False when an empty string value
had previously been stored, for some reason.
Some many2one fields happen to have several corresponding one2many fields,
typically with different domains. It is also the case for the field 'res_id' of
mail.message, where each model inheriting from mail.thread defines a one2many
based on that field. The fix ensures that when a relational field is updated,
all its inverse fields are invalidated.
The extra parsing check is not necessary when we're
not validating inputs, because in that case the
values come from the database and are valid.
The validation is quite expensive due to calls
to strptime() + strftime().
Due to the use of a sudo env, the records
were being added to the sudo cache one by
one instead of all at once. This meant the
prefetching was not able to load all
records at once, leading to prohibitive
times when processing thousands of
records.
If a selection field is defined by a list as selection, such as:
state = fields.Selection([('a', 'A'), ('b', 'B')])
one can extend it by inheritance by redefining the field, as:
state = fields.Selection(selection_add=[('c', 'C')])
The result is that the selection field will have the list
[('a', 'A'), ('b', 'B'), ('c', 'C')] as selection.
As `_inherits` fields are now handled via `related`
fields (not stored, obviously), a new descriptor
`searchable` has been added to `fields_get()` result
to indicated if the field is searchable or not.
The existing code was buggy when writing on *2many fields with a list of
commands: the value was converted for the cache, but taking an empty recordset
as the current value of the field.
When a new record is returned as the value for a many2one on a new record, the
method Many2one.convert_to_write() now returns a NewID, and default_get() then
discards that value from its result. This makes it consistent with its former
behavior.
Manual rebase of #1547
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
Raphael Collet
Christophe Simonis
sebalix