A Deep Dive into Odoo's ORM

📚 In this episode of Odoo at Discourse Digital, we take a comprehensive journey into the world of Odoo's Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). Our exploration commences with the fundamentals of ORM, demonstrating its capabilities as an abstraction layer over SQL, enabling developers to interact smoothly with the database in alignment with the Python programming language.
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🔎 As we proceed, we delve into advanced queries made possible by Odoo's ORM. We explain the usage of various domain operators such as '=', 'ilike', 'in', 'not in', 'child_of', 'parent_of', and '?=' in defining search conditions. This deep understanding of these operators can boost the flexibility and speed of your application.
📋 The episode also gives insights into recordsets, a cornerstone of Odoo's ORM. They form the backbone of views in your Odoo backend, as seen in the examples provided. This session also sheds light on computed fields and onchange methods that allow for dynamic computation and trigger actions in response to changes.
🔐 We touch upon the criticality of constraints in Odoo's ORM, providing examples of how Python constraints and SQL constraints enforce conditions on data. The episode highlights the several forms of inheritance that Odoo's ORM supports - classical, delegation, and extension.
💡 A valuable section of this video introduces you to 'self.env['model_name']' in Odoo and its role in accessing the current environment. This includes the user context, the cursor, and the current model instances.
🚀 As we steer towards the end of this informative journey, we discuss key performance considerations and tips to optimize database performance. Understanding how to choose fields to index is pivotal, as is monitoring system performance. We introduce you to Odoo's Built-in Logging, PostgreSQL Statistics Collector, Odoo Profiler Module, and Server Monitoring Tools for this purpose.
💼 Lastly, we wrap up with ORM best practices that will ensure the efficient and effective use of Odoo's ORM.
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