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["Amit Parik \(OpenERP\)" <amp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  [7.0] orm:  xml field location method for inheritance is flawed

Status in OpenERP Server:
  New

Bug description:
  description:

  In orm.py (2074):

         def locate(source, spec):
         ...
              elif spec.tag == 'field':
                  # Only compare the field name: a field can be only once in a given view
                  # at a given level (and for multilevel expressions, we should use xpath
                  # inheritance spec anyway).
                  for node in source.getiterator('field'):
                      if node.get('name') == spec.get('name'):
                          return node
                  return None
          ...

  when doing applying inheritance mechanism,

    eg. :

                  <field name="state" position="after">
                      <field name="sale_line_id" string="Order Line"/>
                  </field>

  Only the first node matching the field name is returned. getiterator()
  parses the xml depth first, so the first field matching the  field
  name will be the top-most in the file. If you have defined subviews
  (form,tree on one2many field for example) before the targetted field,
  and one of their field name matches the searched parent field name,
  *the replacement will miss its original target* and this will produce
  unexpected bugs. These are very difficult to trace, especially if
  subviews  came from inheritance mechanism.

  
  Version: OpenERP 7.0 runbot (and probably others)
  How to demonstrate this thanks to a direct bug in runbot:

  - launch runbot 
  - in setting>project, check "allow task delegation"
  - In task view, sale_order_id should appear after state located in Extra info page

   code: (project_mrp/project_mrp_view.xml)

         <record id="view_project_mrp_inherit_form2" model="ir.ui.view">
              <field name="name">project.mrp.form.view.inherit</field>
              <field name="model">project.task</field>
              <field name="inherit_id" ref="project.view_task_form2"/>
              <field name="arch" type="xml">
                  <field name="state" position="after">
                      <field name="sale_line_id" string="Order Line"/>
                  </field>
              </field>
          </record>

  but due to the presence of 2 occurrences of "state" labeled fields in
  the project.task form, inheritance apply only to the first one, which
  happens to be the wrong. With chance (or bad luck), this bug won't
  cause exceptions, because the subview happens to support the addition
  of "sale_line_id". Nevertheless, this causes a silent bug in the
  replacement of the field. This is what is shown in the video.

  project.project_view.xml:

          <field name="arch" type="xml">
                  <form string="Project" version="7.0">
                      ....
                      <notebook>
                          ...
                          <page string="Delegation" groups="project.group_delegate_task">
                              ...
                              <field name="child_ids">
                                  <tree string="Delegated tasks">
                                      ...
                                      <field name="stage_id"/>
                                      <field name="state" invisible="1"/>
                                      <field name="effective_hours" widget="float_time"/>
                                      ...
                                  </tree>
                              </field>
                          </page>
                          <page string="Extra Info" attrs="{'readonly':[('state','=','done')]}">
                              <group col="4">
                                  ...
                                  <field name="state" invisible="1"/>
                              </group>
                          </page>
                      </notebook>
                      </sheet>
                       ...
                  </form>
              </field>

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