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Learn Odoo

You're reading from   Learn Odoo A beginner's guide to designing, configuring, and customizing business applications with Odoo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789536898
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Moss Greg Moss
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Odoo 12 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Your First Application 3. Exploring Customer Relationship Management in Odoo 12 4. Purchasing with Odoo 5. Making Goods with Manufacturing 6. Configuring Accounting - Finance Options 7. Administering an Odoo Installation 8. Implementing the Human Resources Application 9. Understanding Project Management 10. Creating Advanced Searches and Dashboards 11. Building a Website with Odoo 12. Implementing E-Commerce with Odoo 13. Customizing Odoo for Your Business 14. Modifying Documents and Reports 15. Discovering Custom Odoo Modules 16. Comparative Analysis of Community versus Enterprise Editions 17. Locating Additional Odoo Resources 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Odoo to create websites and web services

In the previous examples, we have been extending the Odoo framework to include additional fields in models and functionality in our views. Odoo also provides a powerful framework for creating your own websites and web services that can integrate easily with Odoo applications.

Let's see how we can create a simple web service that displays the rush orders on a page.

We begin by creating a controller that is tied to a URL. When we navigate to this URL in our browser, the controller will do whatever processing we require.

Create the controller file using the following command in your Terminal window:

sudo nano controller.py

To test our controller and make sure it is functioning properly, place the following code in the controller.py file to create a simple output:

from odoo import http 
 
class Web_RushOrders(http.Controller): 
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