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Does the ORM always return and receive lists (of ids)?

v7 orm methods

René Schuster

on 5/21/14, 4:46 AM • 13,204 views

The Documentation states that the various methods of the class openerp.osv.orm.BaseModel like browse, search, write, etc. can receive and return a single id/record.

Example: return value for browse method:

Return type: object or list of objects requested

Or select argument for browse method:

select -- id or list of ids.

Or return value for search method:

Returns: id or list of ids of records matching the criteria

I often have the feeling that this is not true and all methods allways expect and return lists.

Is my feeling wrong?

EDIT (in lack of comment functionality):

Thx, Mr. Reis. You are quite right! But is it also true for search?

EDIT:

Search always returns a list. The documentation is wrong. (Although the technical memento states it correctly).

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On 5/21/14, 9:41 AM

It's actually True:

If you do `object.browse(cr, uid, id)`you get one Browse record use use dot-notations directlty on it.

If you do `object.browse(cr, uid, [ids])` you get a *list* of Browse and you should iterate on it to deal with each Browse record.

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On 5/21/14, 5:26 AM

It's a good practice to always

send or return a list of ids

self.write(cr, uid, [lead.id], vals, context=context)

expect both

if isinstance(ids, (int, long)):
ids = [ids]

copy is one of the only method of the orm that expects an int instead of a list.

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On 5/21/14, 2:20 PM

Yes, it is right that most of the ORM methods accepts list of IDs and some of them returns list of IDs or single ID.

Search methods returns list of IDs, write, unlink returns True and create returns new ID.

You can see all the methods here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-server/7.0/view/head:/openerp/osv/orm.py

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