Move Many2one references from former module to new core

[rousseldenis]

Case:

• A model (A) is defined in a custom module

• Some models have Many2one references to that model A.

• I want to move records of model A to new model in core Odoo (some INSERTs)

• Move the Many2one references to point to the new inserted records (different ids).

I could not find a helper here to do such things. Do you have an idea ?

@StefanRijnhart @hbrunn @pedrobaeza

[rousseldenis]

I've found this but is it sufficent ?
https://github.com/OCA/openupgradelib/blob/master/openupgradelib/openupgrade_merge_records.py

[pedrobaeza]

There's no such helper, as this is not a usual case AFAIK, and may be handled different depending on the feature. It's weird that you can simply replace one by the other. I don't have any case in mind like this in OpenUpgrade core addons.

[rousseldenis]

There's no such helper, as this is not a usual case AFAIK, and may be handled different depending on the feature. It's weird that you can simply replace one by the other. I don't have any case in mind like this in OpenUpgrade core addons.

That's because Odoo is improving based on OCA work 😄

[pedrobaeza]

Hehe. But we do a model and table renaming (and possibly field renaming) instead of insert queries, so no different IDs.

[rousseldenis]

Hehe. But we do a model and table renaming (and possibly field renaming) instead of insert queries, so no different IDs.

That's not so trivial as records may exists in base module

[pedrobaeza]

Yeah, I remember such case with issues converted to tasks in v11 and we handle them manually. I think it's difficult to get to something reusable in a function, but if you want to try....

[rousseldenis]

Yeah, I remember such case with issues converted to tasks in v11 and we handle them manually. I think it's difficult to get to something reusable in a function, but if you want to try....

I will for sure as soon I get complete solution