In Odoo relational field Many2many uses special commands in order to save and remove a set of records. In this post you can find the list of commands for this field and a short explanation for each:
- (0, 0, values)
Creates a new record from the provided values. The variable values must be of type dictionary. - (1, id, values)
Updates the record with specified id with the value in the values. - (2, id)
Removes the record with specified id from the database. - (3, id)
Removes the record with specified id from the set, but not from the database. - (4, id)
Adds an existing record with specified id to the set. - (5)
Unlink all records from the set, like using the command “3” on every record explicitly. - (6, 0, ids)
Replaces all the existing records in the set by the specified list of records in ids. This one is the same as using command “5” followed by a command “4” for each record in the list.
Commands “1″, “2”, “3”, “5” can not be used in method “create”.
Also, you can find an explanation for every command as a comment in the source code of the models module.