The intended end-user process is to use the program, not the bindings. As to why the job-creating functions don't increment the counters, I think because the design allows the user to override the counter-based ids in the GUI. Derek wrote the code so he's the authority on the why's and wherefores.
As a general statement GnuCash is not designed as a library around which you can implement your own program. Consequently it's a huge steaming pile of spaghetti with a lot of functionality implemented in the wrong places and many parts lack a carefully thought-out API. We're working on fixing that but we don't have a lot of resources so it's going to take a long time. We decided on the overall framework almost 10 years ago and haven't gotten very far. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 8, 2022, at 5:45 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If these functions are not public, why don't the proper functions for > creating Jobs and other objects increment the counters? > > If I'm understanding correctly, Python bindings provide no way to increment > counters (since exposing some of those incrementX functions were mistakenly > not in the private headers)? After running code based on Python bindings, > the user is expected to manually increment the counters in the UI? > > I just want to establish what the intended end user process is supposed to > be. > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 10:56 PM john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >> All of the incrementFooID functions are declared in the respective private >> headers, so that functionality is not intended to be public API. The why is >> lost to history, those functions were created in a drive-by contribution. >> >> Your workaround of writing directly to the database is ill-advised unless >> your script is going to create jobs and immediately exit. The engine loads >> the database into memory once at the beginning of the session and doesn't >> read it again, so any changes you make direct to the database like that are >> invisible to the current session. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >>> On Aug 7, 2022, at 1:14 PM, Robert Simmons <rsimmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Little error there. I improved the query while writing: "This sets the >> Job >>> ID counter to 3, but you would change that 3 to whatever the ID you >> want." >>> should be "This increments the Job ID to the next" >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
