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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Making a path accessible from the network

In this recipe, we'll look at how to make a URL of the http://yourserver/path1/path2 form accessible to users. This can be either a web page or a path returning arbitrary data to be consumed by other programs. In the latter case, you would usually use JSON format to consume parameters and offer your data.

Getting ready

We'll make use of the library.book model, which we looked at in Chapter 4, Application Models; so, if you haven't done so yet, grab the initial module from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Odoo-14-Development-Cookbook-Fourth-Edition/tree/master/Chapter13/00_initial_module, so that you will be able to follow the examples.

We want to allow any user to query the full list of books. Furthermore, we want to provide the same information to programs through a JSON request.

How to do it...

We'll need to add controllers, which go into a folder called controllers by convention:

  1. Add a controllers...