## Pull Request HOOT (PRHOOT) - part 18

Part 1: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/152930
Part 2: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/153018
Part 3: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/153023
Part 4: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/153203
Part 5: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/153425
Part 6: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/153700
Part 7: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/154054
Part 8: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/154579
Part 9: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/155073
Part 10: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/155639
Part 11: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/156255 / https://github.com/odoo/enterprise/pull/58135
Part 12: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/156869
Part 13: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/158384 / https://github.com/odoo/enterprise/pull/59019
Part 14: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/158916
Part 15: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/160292 / https://github.com/odoo/enterprise/pull/59971
Part 15.5: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/166463
Part 16: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/166311
Part 17: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/168328

Community: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/171004

This pull requests brings various improvements and fixes to Hoot and the Odoo unit test ecosystem. See the different commit messages for more details.

Note: these changes are made in stable to avoid having to support multiple versions of the HOOT API. As such, these changes are intended to be strictly limited to unit tests as to not put the rest of the code base at risk.

---
I confirm I have signed the CLA and read the PR guidelines at www.odoo.com/submit-pr

Forward-Port-Of: odoo/enterprise#65727
Forward-Port-Of: odoo/enterprise#65657

…atch payment

Create a branch company and switch to it
Activate SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) and add Creditor Identifier
Activate Batch Payments
Add a SEPA bank account on the Bank journal
Add a SEPA bank account on a partner
Create SEPA mandate for the partner bank account on the Bank journal
Make an invoice to the partner
Register payment with payment method "SEPA Direct Debit"
Go to Accounting>Customer>Payments
Select the payment > Hit 'Create Batch'
Validate creted batch

Issue: A traceback will raise
```py
  File "[...]/enterprise/account_sepa_direct_debit/models/account_payment.py", line 117, in _sdd_xml_gen_header
    create_xml_node_chain(InitgPty, ['Id','OrgId','Othr','Id'], company_id.sdd_creditor_identifier)
  File "[...]/odoo/tools/xml_utils.py", line 109, in create_xml_node_chain
    current_node.text = last_node_value
  File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 1039, in lxml.etree._Element.text.__set__
  File "src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi", line 747, in lxml.etree._setNodeText
  File "src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi", line 735, in lxml.etree._createTextNode
  File "src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi", line 1538, in lxml.etree._utf8
TypeError: Argument must be bytes or unicode, got 'bool'
```

This occurs because we assign the credit identifier to the branch
company, but when validating the batch the system exports the
sdd xml using the company found on the journal
https://github.com/odoo/enterprise/blob/88d25bd184585143f39011947263e928b14551e5/account_batch_payment/models/account_batch_payment.py#L343
so the parent company that have no Creditor Identifier defined

After adding the Creditor Identifier on the parent company and trying
again the validation an error will block the action

"""Trying to generate a Direct Debit XML file containing payments from
another company than that file's creditor."""

opw-3943103

Forward-Port-Of: odoo/enterprise#64277