Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

The checkout-list controller

Now that we have gone through the basics, let's work on our checkout list. We want to have a /checkout URL that shows us a web page with a list of checkouts.

For that, we need a controller method to prepare the data to present and a QWeb template to present it to the user.

Add the library_website/controllers/main.py file to the module, with the following code:

from odoo import http from odoo.http import request class Main(http.Controller):      @http.route('/checkouts', auth='user', website=True) 
    def checkouts(self, **kwargs): 
        Checkout = request.env['library.checkout'] 
        checkouts = Checkout.search([]) 
        return request.render( 
            'library_website.index',            {'docs': checkouts}) 

The controller retrieves the data to be used ...