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Pedro M. Baeza edited this page Apr 12, 2023 · 27 revisions

Before migrating

Tasks to do in the migration

  • Bump module version to 14.0.1.0.0.
  • Remove any possible migration script from previous version.
  • Squash administrative commits (if any) with the previous commit for reducing commit noise. Check https://github.com/OCA/maintainer-tools/wiki/Merge-commits-in-pull-requests#mergesquash-the-commits-generated-by-bots-or-weblate for details.
  • If you add new values in a selection field through selection_add, you have to define a new ondelete= attribute setting the value to assign for each previous value in case of uninstallation. More info at https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/f0481392c6501cae2c38359f526da1eefa451337. Example: selection_field = fields.Selection(selection_add=[("foo", "Foo")], ondelete={"foo": "set null"}).
  • In the XML views, the invisible and readonly attributes no longer support dynamic expressions like state=='draft'. When using those, use the attrs attribute instead. You can only use them for direct context queries like context.get('invisible').
  • XML shortcut tags <act_window> and <report> are no longer valid, and must be replaced by its full definition through <record> tag. Take into account that the model attribute of the <record> tag was transferred to both model and binding_model_id fields before, so you should put both lines on the new <record> tag. Check an example in https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/6835aeb0de6895f7f4d6b23e0b4654465ef21d6a#diff-3b18ee604f9c7367c3d380bcc92f09c390e896f511bbe563f19116297a8ab653L5-R17
  • In this versión, string attribute of the <button> elements are directly shown in the list views as text instead of being a tooltip, and thus, it takes a lot of space in screen. You may want to switch to title attribute to preserve the old behavior. Example: https://github.com/OCA/project/commit/23fee08ae43258effa39613ce76eb8f4e83650fe
  • If there are transient models, you have to add explicit security ACLs for them (and optionally record rules).
  • If you were overriding _compute_display_name for getting a different display_name, you should now override name_get method and add there the needed @api.depends. This is not valid though if you want to make display_name stored for allowing a direct name_search. Other option is to override name_search instead.
  • Remove size=X attribute in Char fields, as it's no longer valid for restricting the size of the strings.
  • _name_search is now returning ids instead of the name_get style tuple (list of (id, display_name)): https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/1f48130d2bd055835ee428a21922331d126285a3
  • Remove global field assignation line in record rules, as it's a computed field.
  • Replace appearances of .with_context(force_company=...) with .with_company(...).
  • The access to ir.actions.* objects has been removed, so you need to use sudo or interact via the /web/action/load controller. See odoo/odoo#53335 for more information. You can use _for_xml_id method when reading an action dictionary.
  • If you are posting messages in the chatter with a subtype, now the description of the subtype is shown on the UI, so you don't need to repeat such text on the body, and also take this into account for putting good subtypes descriptions (from the functional perspective).
  • Check tasks of previous versions if you are migrating from lower versions than v13. It's also recommended to check past migration guides for things not done in previous migrations.
  • Add tests to increase code coverage.
  • Do the rest of the changes you need to do for making the module works on new version.

How-to

Technical method to migrate a module from "13.0" to "14.0" branch

  • $REPO: the OCA repository hosting the module
  • $MODULE: the name of the module you want to migrate
  • $USER_ORG: your GitHub login or organization name

Full process

  • On a shell command: 
    $ git clone https://github.com/OCA/$REPO -b 14.0
$ git checkout -b 14.0-mig-$MODULE origin/14.0
$ git format-patch --keep-subject --stdout origin/14.0..origin/13.0 -- $MODULE | git am -3 --keep
$ pre-commit run -a  # to run black, isort and prettier (ignore pylint errors at this stage)
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "[IMP] $MODULE: black, isort, prettier"  --no-verify  # it is important to do all formatting in one commit the first time
  • Check https://github.com/OCA/maintainer-tools/wiki/Merge-commits-in-pull-requests for a procedure for reducing commits from "OCA Transbot...".
  • Adapt the module to the 14.0 version following tasks to do.
  • On a shell command, type this for uploading the content to GitHub: 
    $ git add --all
$ git commit -m "[MIG] $MODULE: Migration to 14.0"
$ git remote add $USER_ORG git@github.com:$USER_ORG/$REPO.git # This mode requires an SSH key in the GitHub account
$ ... or ....
$ git remote add $USER_ORG https://github.com/$USER_ORG/$REPO.git # This will required to enter user/password each time
$ git push $USER_ORG 14.0-mig-$MODULE --set-upstream
  • Follow the link on the command line or check in https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork how to create the pull request.
  • For being easily searchable and avoiding to duplicate efforts, please name the pull request following this pattern: [14.0][MIG] <module>: Migration to 14.0.

Troubleshooting

Sometimes, when performing these operations, the process can hang due to conflicts on the patches being applied. One of the possible problems is because a patch removes entirely a file and git am is not able to resolve this. It ends with a message error: ...: patch does not apply.

If that's your case, you can add --ignore-whitespace at the end of the git am command for allowing the patch to be applied, although there will be still conflicts to be solved, but they will be doable through standard conflict resolution system. Starting from the previous situation, you will need to do:

git am --abort
git format-patch --keep-subject --stdout origin/14.0..origin/13.0 -- <module path> | git am -3 --keep --ignore-whitespace
# resolve conflicts (for example git rm <file>)
git add --all
git am --continue
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