Dynamic records

While XML allows you create only static records, there is a way to create record dynamically via python code. You need dynamic records, for example, to add support both for enterprise and community releases or to add some records to each company in database etc.

There several ways to execute code on installation:

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The problem with dynamic records is that odoo considers such records as ones, which were in xml files, but now deleted. It means that odoo will delete such dynamic records right after updating. There are two ways to resolve it.

noupdate=False

Simply add update=True to your ir.model.data record:

debt_account = registry['account.account'].create(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, {
    'name': 'Debt',
    'code': 'XDEBT',
    'user_type_id': registry.get('ir.model.data').get_object_reference(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, 'account', 'data_account_type_current_assets')[1],
    'company_id': company.id,
    'note': 'code "XDEBT" should not be modified as it is used to compute debt',
})
registry['ir.model.data'].create(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, {
    'name': 'debt_account_' + str(company.id),
    'model': 'account.account',
    'module': 'pos_debt_notebook',
    'res_id': debt_account,
    'noupdate': True,  # If it's False, target record (res_id) will be removed while module update
})

noupdate=True

If for some reason you cannot use noupdate=False, you can use following trick.

Here is the example from web_debranding module. To create records in ir.model.data we use name _web_debranding. Then odoo will consider such records as belonging to another module (_web_debranding) and will not delete them. But it also means, that odoo will not delete them after uninstalling. For later case, we need to use uninstall_hook.

python file

from openerp import SUPERUSER_ID, models, tools, api

MODULE = '_web_debranding'

class view(models.Model):
    _inherit = 'ir.ui.view'

    def _create_debranding_views(self, cr, uid):

        self._create_view(cr, uid, 'menu_secondary', 'web.menu_secondary', '''
        <xpath expr="//div[@class='oe_footer']" position="replace">
           <div class="oe_footer"></div>
       </xpath>''')

    def _create_view(self, cr, uid, name, inherit_id, arch, noupdate=False, type='qweb'):
        registry = self.pool
        view_id = registry['ir.model.data'].xmlid_to_res_id(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, "%s.%s" % (MODULE, name))
        if view_id:
            registry['ir.ui.view'].write(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, [view_id], {
                'arch': arch,
            })
            return view_id

        try:
            view_id = registry['ir.ui.view'].create(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, {
                'name': name,
                'type': type,
                'arch': arch,
                'inherit_id': registry['ir.model.data'].xmlid_to_res_id(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, inherit_id, raise_if_not_found=True)
            })
        except:
            import traceback
            traceback.print_exc()
            return
        registry['ir.model.data'].create(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, {
            'name': name,
            'model': 'ir.ui.view',
            'module': MODULE,
            'res_id': view_id,
            'noupdate': noupdate,
        })
        return view_id

yaml file

-
  !python {model: ir.ui.view}: |
    self._create_debranding_views(cr, uid)

__openerp__.py

'uninstall_hook': 'uninstall_hook',
'data': [
    'path/to/file.yml'
]

__init__.py

from openerp import SUPERUSER_ID

MODULE = '_web_debranding'
def uninstall_hook(cr, registry):
    registry['ir.model.data']._module_data_uninstall(cr, SUPERUSER_ID, [MODULE])