Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

In the first step, we created a dynamic route for the book details page. In this route, we have added <model("library.book"):book>. This accepts URLs with integers, like /books/1. Odoo considers this integer as the ID of the library.book model, and when this URL is accessed, Odoo fetches a recordset and passes it to the function as the argument. So, when /books/1 is accessed from the browser, the book parameter in the function library_book_detail() will have a recordset of the library.book model with the ID 1. We passed this book recordset and rendered a new template called my_library.book_detail.

In the second step, we created a new QWeb template called book_detail to render a book details page. This is simple and is created ...