import must not ask for _inherits field

Mark your field as readonly or override your field_get as befits your application domain if you do not wish for the field to be importable, the current (complete and utter lack of anything even remotely resembling an) import protocol does not give any way for the client to know the domain-specific semantics of your fields.

I forgot to mention - and it is not visible on the import form - it's not "my" field_get but the product import. nothing "I" can do about

it might well be that this message will bekome more meaningful (Name) after bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930313
is fixed

Hello Xavier,

I suggest we make this information - if the m2o is from an inherits or not
- available in the field information, so over RPC as it's trivial but
useful in many situations, not just here. For inatance in OOOR and
imitations, this is an information we always lack and do approximative
heuristics to deal with.

The GTK and web-client often don't have such issue because much of their
logic is driven by the fields they encounter in the views, but basing it
all from the hard- coded views is cetainly not good practise either, so I
suggest letting the clients know this information.

Hope it's clear, sorry sent from phone in airport.
On Feb 10, 2012 5:40 PM, "Ferdinand @ Camptocamp" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I forgot to mention - and it is not visible on the import form - it's
> not "my" field_get but the product import. nothing "I" can do about
>
>
> ** Changed in: openerp-web
> Status: Invalid => New
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> import must not ask for _inherits field
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> Status in OpenERP Web:
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> Bug description:
> product_tmpl_id is pure internal and must be hidden from users
>
> this field will never be in an import csv as users must and will not
> know internal ID's
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IMHO it realy must get out of the way

we have a "name" field for product name - which technically is product_product.product_tmpl_id.name

so no way to define product_tmpl_id/id in an import csv

> I suggest we make this information - if the m2o is from an inherits or not - available in the field information, so over RPC as it's trivial but useful in many situations, not just here. For inatance in OOOR and imitations, this is an information we always lack and do approximative heuristics to deal with.

I'm not against such an idea at all, but this needs to be brought up to the framework and actually discussed in order to find a generally useful API for that kind of stuff, so we don't end up with yet another limited shitty ad-hoc attribute.

Ferdinand: my remark is more: we probably should do what you suggest and
I'm just commenting on how this could technically be done by exposing the
inherits structure over RPC to the clients, cause the limitation doesn't
showa up just here.
On Feb 10, 2012 7:42 PM, "Ferdinand @ Camptocamp" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> IMHO it realy must get out of the way
>
> we have a "name" field for product name - which technically is
> product_product.product_tmpl_id.name
>
> so no way to define product_tmpl_id/id in an import csv
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenERP
> Drivers, which is subscribed to OpenERP Web.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930318
>
> Title:
> import must not ask for _inherits field
>
> Status in OpenERP Web:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> product_tmpl_id is pure internal and must be hidden from users
>
> this field will never be in an import csv as users must and will not
> know internal ID's
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openerp-web/+bug/930318/+subscriptions
>

Seriously? This is wishlist? It just prevents anyone to import a product without creating several objects explicitly, and this is wishlist?

Just want to recall that product import works with GTK

Ok, thanks Ferdinand... But I think that's one more reason to not considre that as "wishlist". That is clearly a dysfunction that should be corrected, not just an additional feature wished by some users.

I agree this is a really important usability features, and it does not deserve to be tagged "wishlist". Maybe if it affected something less frequently imported as Products, but IMO, this is an important issue.

+ 1 for issue to be solved.

Hello,

related to this:
I would suggest to have the ir.model object expose what are the _inherits fields to the RPC clients. Today this information is not exposed and leads to this issue for instance. Today, OpenERP GTK adn web-client rely on the fact that those _inherits fields are carefully not included in the XML of the views (like the fact there is no product_tmpl_id in the product.product forms) but this is a kind of hardcoded workaround, a much more elegant and generic solution would be to expose to RPC clients those keys so they know how to deal with them. That would allow to fix that bug too.

For the record, here is a workaround for the problem by way of monkey patching:
https://code.launchpad.net/~therp-nl/web-addons/6.1-import_models_with_inherits