I've discovered that Odoo allows us to authenticate via an HTTP request to the following endpoint:

http://your_odoo_instance.com/web/session/authenticate. However, you need to include specific parameters in the body of the request.

Sample body parameters:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "params": {
    "db": "odoo_db",
    "login": "email",
    "password": "password"
  }
}

For security reasons, I want to replace the password with my API key. I attempted to use the API key in place of the password, like so:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "params": {
    "db": "odoo_db",
    "login": "email",
    "password": "api_key"
  }
}

However, this approach doesn't seem to work.

My question is: Is there a way to authenticate using the API key instead of the password?

I've noticed that most API key usage is tied to CRUD operations, but I want to explore using the API key with Odoo controllers as well.

Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help!