#!/usr/bin/env python3 # © 2021-2026 TechnoLibre (http://www.technolibre.ca) # License AGPL-3.0 or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl) """Find the website COW copies that have gone stale, and reset them. The problem ----------- A COW copy freezes the module view it was copied from. Version after version, the MODULE view is modernised while the copy is not — it is user data, nothing rewrites it. The copy keeps working right up to the moment a CHILD view does an ``xpath`` onto something the module added, renamed or re-anchored:: Element '' cannot be located in parent view Observed on ``web.layout`` during 14.0 -> 15.0: the copy dated from 12.0, where the script tag had no ``id`` and QWeb still said ``t-raw``. It had survived until then only because the 14.0 module xpath carried a fallback (``//head/script[@id='…'] | //head/script[last()]``) that 15.0 removed. What this checks ---------------- Not a heuristic on deprecated syntax, and not an absolute one either: the DRIFT between a copy and its module twin. For every active child of a COW copy, each ``xpath`` expression is resolved twice — against the module twin and against the copy. An expression the twin can satisfy and the copy cannot is an anchor the copy has lost. The comparison has to be differential. Odoo resolves an xpath against the COMBINED arch of the whole inheritance chain, so « does not resolve in this parent » proves nothing on its own — a child of ``website.layout`` targets ``//header``, which comes from an ancestor. When it bites ------------- A reported copy is not necessarily failing right now. Odoo re-validates a COW copy when its module twin is REWRITTEN — which is what a version bump does — or when the page is rendered for that website. So a finding is a breakage already present in the data, waiting for the next bump to surface it. That is precisely when it is cheap to fix. Resetting --------- ``--reset`` copies the MODULE arch over the stale copy. The previous arch is always written to a backup file first, and the diff is printed, because a copy can hold a genuine customisation — one line among fifty of drift. Read the diff, reset, then re-apply what mattered as an INHERITING view rather than a full copy, so the next version bump cannot make it stale again. Plain psql on purpose: this runs on databases whose Odoo registry does not load, which is precisely when it is needed. """ import argparse import datetime import difflib import json import os import re import subprocess import sys def run_psql(database, sql): """Run a statement and return stdout, raising on failure.""" result = subprocess.run( ["psql", "-d", database, "-tAc", sql], capture_output=True, text=True, ) if result.returncode: raise RuntimeError( f"Query failed on '{database}': {result.stderr.strip()}" ) return result.stdout def normalise_arch(value): """The arch as a string, whatever the column type. Odoo stores ``arch_db`` as text up to 15.0 and as jsonb (one entry per language) from 16.0. Casting to text gives ``{"en_US": "]*\bexpr=([\"'])(.*?)\1", re.S) def child_xpaths(arch): """The xpath expressions a view applies to its parent.""" return [match.group(2) for match in XPATH_RE.finditer(arch)] def require_lxml(): """The XPath engine, or a loud failure. Never degrade to « everything resolves » when lxml is missing: a checker that cannot check must not answer « all clean ». Odoo's own venvs all ship lxml; the bare system python3 usually does not. """ try: from lxml import etree return etree except ImportError: sys.exit( "❌ lxml is required to resolve the xpath expressions.\n" " Run this with an interpreter that has it, e.g.\n" " ./.venv.erplibre/bin/python3 " + os.path.relpath(__file__) ) def resolve(etree, arch, expr): """True if `expr` matches something in `arch`. An arch that does not parse, or an expression lxml cannot evaluate, counts as resolvable: this tool reports views that will CERTAINLY break, and must never invent a failure it cannot substantiate. """ try: tree = etree.fromstring(arch.encode("utf-8")) except etree.XMLSyntaxError: return True try: return bool(tree.xpath(expr)) except etree.XPathEvalError: return True def analyse(database): """[(copy, module_twin, [(child_id, failing_expr), ...])] — the COW copies that have DRIFTED away from their module twin. The test is differential, and it has to be. Odoo resolves an xpath against the COMBINED arch of the whole inheritance chain, not against the parent's own arch, so « does not resolve here » proves nothing on its own: a child of ``website.layout`` legitimately targets ``//header``, which comes from an ancestor. Comparing the copy with its module twin removes that whole class of noise: resolves in the module twin, not in the copy -> the copy lost an anchor: real drift resolves in neither -> the anchor lives further up the chain resolves in both -> nothing to see Inactive children are skipped: Odoo never applies them, so they cannot break a load. """ etree = require_lxml() views = fetch_views(database) module_by_key = { v["key"]: v for v in views.values() if v["website_id"] is None and v["key"] } children = {} for view in views.values(): if view["inherit_id"]: children.setdefault(view["inherit_id"], []).append(view) findings = [] for view in sorted(views.values(), key=lambda v: v["id"]): twin = module_by_key.get(view["key"]) if view["website_id"] is None or twin is None: continue broken = [] for child in children.get(view["id"], []): if not child.get("active", True): continue for expr in child_xpaths(child["arch"]): if resolve(etree, twin["arch"], expr) and not resolve( etree, view["arch"], expr ): broken.append((child["id"], expr)) if broken: findings.append((view, twin, broken)) return findings def show_diff(module_view, cow_view): """Module arch vs copy: what the copy would gain and lose on a reset.""" diff = difflib.unified_diff( module_view["arch"].splitlines(), cow_view["arch"].splitlines(), fromfile=f"module id={module_view['id']}", tofile=f"cow id={cow_view['id']}", lineterm="", ) for line in diff: print(f" {line}") def backup(database, cow_view, directory): """Store the arch about to be replaced, and return the file path.""" os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok=True) stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") path = os.path.join( directory, f"{cow_view['key']}_{cow_view['id']}_{stamp}.json" ) with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh: json.dump( { "database": database, "id": cow_view["id"], "key": cow_view["key"], "website_id": cow_view["website_id"], "saved_at": stamp, "arch_db": cow_view["arch"], }, fh, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False, ) return path def reset(database, cow_view, module_view): """Copy the module arch over the stale copy. Returns rows updated.""" sql = ( "UPDATE ir_ui_view c SET arch_db = m.arch_db " "FROM ir_ui_view m " f"WHERE c.id = {cow_view['id']} AND m.id = {module_view['id']}" ) run_psql(database, sql) return 1 def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description=( "Report the website COW copies whose children can no longer be" " applied, and optionally reset them onto the module view." ) ) parser.add_argument("-d", "--database", required=True) parser.add_argument( "--reset", metavar="KEY", action="append", default=[], help="reset this key onto its module view ('all' for every finding)", ) parser.add_argument( "--apply", action="store_true", help="really write; without it --reset only shows what it would do", ) parser.add_argument( "--backup-dir", default=None, help="where the replaced arch is saved" " (default private/odoo/migration//cow_reset)", ) config = parser.parse_args() findings = analyse(config.database) if not findings: print("✅ No COW copy has drifted from its module view.") return 0 print( f"⚠️ {len(findings)} COW copy(ies) drifted from their module view" f" in {config.database}" ) print( " Odoo surfaces this when the module view is rewritten (a version" " bump) or when the page is rendered.\n" ) for cow_view, module_view, broken in findings: twin = ( f"module id={module_view['id']}" if module_view else "NO module view with this key" ) print( f" id={cow_view['id']} key={cow_view['key']}" f" website_id={cow_view['website_id']} [{twin}]" ) for child_id, expr in broken: print(f" child {child_id} cannot apply: {expr}") if module_view: show_diff(module_view, cow_view) print() if not config.reset: print( "Nothing changed. Re-run with --reset --apply to reset a" " copy onto its module view." ) return 1 wanted = set(config.reset) directory = config.backup_dir or os.path.join( "private", "odoo", "migration", config.database, "cow_reset" ) done = 0 for cow_view, module_view, _broken in findings: if "all" not in wanted and cow_view["key"] not in wanted: continue if not module_view: print( f"⏭ {cow_view['key']}: no module view to reset onto," " skipped." ) continue if not config.apply: print( f"[dry-run] would reset id={cow_view['id']}" f" ({cow_view['key']}) onto id={module_view['id']}" ) continue path = backup(config.database, cow_view, directory) reset(config.database, cow_view, module_view) done += 1 print(f"✅ reset id={cow_view['id']} ({cow_view['key']})") print(f" previous arch saved to {path}") if config.apply and done: print( f"\n{done} copy(ies) reset. Re-apply any real customisation as an" " INHERITING view, not a copy, so it cannot go stale again." ) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())