Managing sitemaps for the website

A website's sitemaps are crucial for any website. The search engine will use website sitemaps to index the pages of a website. In this recipe, we will add book details pages to the sitemap.

Getting ready...

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe. If you want to check the current sitemap in Odoo, open <your_odoo_server_url>/sitemap.xml in your browser. This will not have the book's URL in it.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add a book's page to sitemap.xml:

1. Import the methods in main.py, as follows:

   from odoo.addons.http_routing.models.ir_http import slug
   from odoo.addons.website.models.ir_http import sitemap_qs2dom

2. Add the sitemap_books method to main.py, as follows:

   class Main(http.Controller):
   ...
       def sitemap_books(env, rule, qs):
           Books = env['library.book']
      ...