April 2016
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
9h 16m
English
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Consume parameters passed to your handlers
It's nice to be able to show content, but it's better to show content as a result of some user input. This recipe will demonstrate the different ways to receive this input and react to it. As in the previous recipes, we'll make use of the library.book model.
How to do it…
First, we'll add a route that expects a traditional parameter with a book's ID to show some details about it. Then, we'll do the same, but we'll incorporate our parameter into the path itself:
- Add a path that expects a book's ID as parameter:
@http.route('/my_module/book_details', type='http', auth='none') def book_details(self, book_id): record = request.env['library.book'] .sudo().browse(int(book_id)) return u'<html><body><h1>%s</h1>Authors: ...