What is the use of slug in odoo

Question

What is slug and why it is used. I'm confused with it. Can anyone help me on it. Thanx

 <p><a t-attf-href="/academy/{{ slug(teacher) }}">
     <t t-esc="teacher.name"/></a>

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '19 at 09:17

I think it works for removing special characters from a string.

In addons>web>static>lib>underscore.string.js

slugify: function(str) {
      if (str == null) return '';

      var from  = "ąàáäâãåæăćęèéëêìíïîłńòóöôõøśșțùúüûñçżź",
          to    = "aaaaaaaaaceeeeeiiiilnoooooosstuuuunczz",
          regex = new RegExp(defaultToWhiteSpace(from), 'g');

      str = String(str).toLowerCase().replace(regex, function(c){
        var index = from.indexOf(c);
        return to.charAt(index) || '-';
      });

      return _s.dasherize(str.replace(/[^\w\s-]/g, ''));
    },

You can also see this [page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5574042/string-slugification-in-python). — Terrence Poe, Jul 16 '19 at 09:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '19 at 09:24

As described in website python file.

Transform a string to a slug that can be used in a url path.

This method will first try to do the job with python-slugify if present. Otherwise it will process string by stripping leading and ending spaces, converting unicode chars to ascii, lowering all chars and replacing spaces and underscore with hyphen "-".

What is the use of slug in odoo

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