I am writing an application to service Dropbox webhooks and I have a controller class:

class webhook(http.Controller):

   _cp_path="/pathto"

   @http.request

   def index(self, req, **kwargs):

      """Need to access database tables here"""

So I figured out that I need a cr, uid, and some other parameters,

I defined the following and have gotten it to work:

cr = openerp.sql_db.db_connect("DBNAME").cursor()

pool=openerp.pooler.RegistryManager.get("DBNAME")

result=pool.get("model.path").search(cr,1,[])

cr.close()

Is this the best way to do this?