How do I interact via the ORM with tables not managed/created by Odoo?

Question

I have an Odoo database containing tables which were created using a separate application interacting with the same database.
I know I could run SQL SELECT queries directly in Odoo to read the data, but I'm wondering if there's a way to just have the ORM read the table in a "read-only" way.
I'm already aware that you can set `_auto` to `False` on the model and override the `init()` method to disable Odoo's automatic management of the table, but I've only seen this used to have Odoo read data fro

Ray Carnes (ray) · Answer

I just tried this and quickly tested basic functionality (sort, filter, group by, export).

Note: "id" is required for Odoo to retrieve data, so as long as your table(s) have that field [I didn't test column aliases], you should be good with this approach:

Given this table:
CREATE TABLE films (id integer, code char(5), title varchar(40));
INSERT INTO films (id, code, title) VALUES (1,'LF232','Return of the Jedi');
You can create this class / model:

Then, with appropriate permissions (read acc

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