Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Our first web page

To get us started with the basics of Odoo web development, we will first implement a simple Hello World web page showcasing the basic concepts and techniques. Imaginative, right?

For our first web page, we only need a controller object.

We will begin adding it in the controllers/hello.py file:

1. Add the following line to the library_website/__init__.py file:

from . import modelsfrom . import controllers

2. Add the library_website/controllers/__init__.py file with the following line:

from . import hello

3. Add the actual file for the controller, library_website/controllers/hello.py, with the following code:

from odoo import http class Hello(http.Controller):     @http.route('/helloworld', auth='public')  def helloworld(self): ...