Description

This step is used to return OpenERP object data using the XMLRPC interface. It makes use of the standard OpenERP 'read' function and returns rows that satisfy the specified filter.

Since: PDI version 5.0 (PDI-6661)

Deprecated since 8.20

Options

Option	Description
Step Name	Name of the step; the name has to be unique in a single transformation
Connection	The OpenERP database connection to read data from
Model Name	The model/object to read data from
Read Batch Size	The maximum amount of rows to return with each call.
Filter	Specifies search criteria. If no filter is specified, all records are returned
Field to retrieve	List of fields to read

Filtering data

The filtering section allows you to specify search criteria.

Option	Description
Operator	Supports AND, OR, NOT. AND is the default option if no operator is specified. If you need to use OR, please read the OpenERP documentation on filtering.
Field	Model/Object field to filter on
Comparator	Supports =, !=, >, >=, <, <=, like, ilike, is null, is not null, in, not in, child_of, parent_left, parent_right
Value	Constant value that will be compared to the model field

WARNING: OpenERP filters do not work as you would expect. Hit the 'Filter Help' button to get the OpenERP description on how to do filters.

Filtering example using OR

To Filter on res.partner where the partner is either a customer OR a supplier:

Model fields

All model fields are returned by the step including related, many2many, many2one, function, selection fields etc.

Option	Description
Label	Label as it would be displayed in an OpenERP client.
Model	For many2many, one2many and many2one fields it gives an indication of the related object.
Field	The field name on the object. Also the field name that will be used in the transformation.

many2one fields

many2one fields return the ID and Name of the parent object. The postfix "_id" and "_name" is added to the original field name.

For example: The field country returns two fields: country_id (for the ID number) and country_name (for the country name). The same will go for salesman (user_id_id and user_id_name).

many2many and one2many fields

many2many and one2many fields are returned as a comma separated list of ID numbers.

HINT: If you need to join with many2many records, use the "Row Normaliser" step to get a row for each value of the comma separated list of IDs. The ID fields can then be joined with a stream of detail records using the "Merge Join" step.

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