Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

The checkout detail page

Each item in the checkout list has a link to the corresponding detail page. We should implement a controller for those links and a QWeb template for their presentation. At this point, this should be a straightforward exercise.

In the library_website/controllers/main.py file, add the the following method:

#class Main(http.Controller):
#... 
    @http.route('/checkout/<model("library.checkout"):doc>',                 auth="user",  # default, but made explicit here                website=True) 
    def checkout(self, doc, **kwargs): 
        return http.request.render( 
            'library_website.checkout', 
            {'doc': doc}) 

Notice that the route is using a placeholder with the model("library.checkout") converter, which will be mapped to the method's doc argument. It captures a ...