As a mixin

Use standard Odoo inheritance:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    _name = "my.model"
    _inherit = "endpoint.route.handler"

Once you have this, each my.model record will generate a route. You can have a look at the endpoint module to see a real life example.

The options of the routing rules are defined by the method _default_endpoint_options. Here’s an example from the endpoint module:

def _default_endpoint_options_handler(self):
    return {
        "klass_dotted_path": "odoo.addons.endpoint.controllers.main.EndpointController",
        "method_name": "auto_endpoint",
        "default_pargs": (self.route,),
    }

As you can see, you have to pass the references to the controller class and the method to use when the endpoint is called. And you can prepare some default arguments to pass. In this case, the route of the current record.

As a tool

Initialize non stored route handlers and generate routes from them. For instance:

route_handler = self.env["endpoint.route.handler.tool"]
endpoint_handler = MyController()._my_handler
vals = {
    "name": "My custom route",
    "route": "/my/custom/route",
    "request_method": "GET",
    "auth_type": "public",
}
new_route = route_handler.new(vals)
new_route._register_controller()

You can override options and define - for instance - a different controller method:

options = {
    "handler": {
        "klass_dotted_path": "odoo.addons.my_module.controllers.SpecialController",
        "method_name": "my_special_handler",
    }
}
new_route._register_controller(options=options)

Of course, what happens when the endpoint gets called depends on the logic defined on the controller method.

In both cases (mixin and tool) when a new route is generated or an existing one is updated, the ir.http.routing_map (which holds all Odoo controllers) will be updated.

You can see a real life example on shopfloor.app model.

Authors

• Camptocamp

Contributors

• Simone Orsi <simone.orsi@camptocamp.com>

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

Current maintainer:

This module is part of the OCA/web-api project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.