Understanding web controllers
Web controllers are the server-side components responsible for responding when an Odoo web path is accessed, usually triggering the rendering of a web page.
A web path, such as /library/catalog, is assigned to a route, triggering a controller method. The method code can access details of the web request through the request object, and the result is a response object, with the details to return to the client.
Declaring routes
The http.route decorator is used to assign a method to a web path. These are the arguments available:
route, usually provided as a positional argument, is a string, or a list of strings, with the paths to map. Method arguments can be extracted from the path. The syntax to express these arguments is detailed in the next section.type, to specify the type of request. By default, this ishttp, and can also be set tojson.authis the authentication type required. It can be one ofuser,public, ornone. Theuser...