The environment in Odoo is an object that stores various contextual data used by the ORM. This data includes:

• uid: The current user, used to check access rights.

• cr: The current database cursor (for database queries).

• context: The current context, used to store arbitrary metadata.

• su: Superuser mode.

• It also holds a cache for records.

You can access the environment using the following method:

self.env

Output: <Environment object>

Predefined Functions

These functions can be accessed using env:

• ref(self, xml_id, raise_if_not_found=True)
  Returns the record corresponding to the given 'xml_id'.
  Example: self.env.ref('mail.mt_note')

• is_system
  Returns whether the current user has group 'Settings' or is in superuser mode.
  Example: self.env.is_system()

• user
  Returns the current user.
  Example: self.env.user

• company
  Returns the current company.
  Example: self.env.company

• companies
  Returns a recordset of the enabled companies by the user.
  Example: self.env.companies

• lang
  Returns the current language code.
  Example: self.env.lang