Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

To create a category with some child categories, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Create a method in the library.book.category model with the name create_dummy_category:

def create_categories(self):    ......

2. Inside the body of this method, prepare a dictionary of values for the fields of the first child category:

categ1 = {    'name': 'Child category 1',    'description': 'Description for child 1'}

3. Prepare a dictionary of values for the fields of the second category:

categ2 = {    'name': 'Child category 2',    'description': 'Description for child 2'}

4. Prepare a dictionary of values for the fields of the parent category:

parent_category_val = {    'name': 'Parent category',    'email': 'Description for parent category', 'child_ids': ...