[Bug/Question] Abstract models no longer detected in v2.5.2 (Worked in v2.4.3)

[vib-adhoc]

Hi there! First of all, thanks for the great work on Odooly.

I'm reaching out because I've noticed a change in behavior regarding abstract models. In version 2.4.3, everything was working perfectly and abstract models (those inheriting from models.AbstractModel) were correctly detected. However, since updating to v2.5.2, the tool is no longer finding them.

The issue:

• v2.4.3: Abstract models are found and accessible.
• v2.5.2: Abstract models are missing or not detected.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Use Odooly v2.4.3 and search for an abstract model (e.g., mail.thread or a custom abstract model) -> Result: Success.
2. Update to Odooly v2.5.2.
3. Attempt to search for the same abstract model -> Result: Not found / Error.

If this change is intentional or part of a new architectural decision in the 2.5.x series, could you please provide some guidance on the recommended way to work with abstract models now?

Otherwise, if this is an unexpected regression, I'd be happy to provide more details to help fix it.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[florentx]

Actually there was changes in verson 2.4.7 which explain the behavior:

• Retrieve models when user does not have access to ir.model.
  Only for Odoo 15 there's no workaround. For Odoo >= 16 a
  method get_available_models is available to all users.

And to be consistent with get_available_models, it filters out the abstract models when it is possible.
Behavior might depends :

• on the Odoo version (because abstract was not a field of "ir.model" until Odoo 18, except if "web_studio" was installed)
• and if the user connected has "read" permission on "ir.model" or not.

Please can you explain the use case with AbstractModel, and which Odoo version you were testing.

A workaround is to bypass the check of model existence:

    # E.g.:
    base_model = env._get("base", check=False)

[vib-adhoc]

Thanks for the workaround! It works great.

To answer your question about the use case: I am testing on Odoo 18.0 using the system user (which has full access to ir.model). I was trying to access an AbstractModel, specifically mail.thread, using the standard env["mail.thread"] call.

In this scenario, bypassing the existence check with env._get(model_name, check=False) solved the issue.