Step 8 – Implementing the website UI

Odoo also provides a web development framework, to develop website features closely integrated with the backend apps. We will take our first steps toward this by creating a simple web page to display a list of active books in our library.

The book catalog page will respond to web requests at the http://my-server/library/books address, so /library/books is the URL endpoint we want to implement.

Web controllers are the components responsible for rendering web pages. A controller is a Python method in an http.Controller derived class. The method is bound to one or more URL endpoints using the @http.route controller. When any of these URL endpoints are accessed, the controller code executes and returns the HTML to be presented to the user. The HTML rendering will usually be done using the QWeb templating engine.

Adding the endpoint controller

Code for controllers is expected to be inside a /controllers subdirectory. To add a controller...