Creating GUID

[Tom Lofts]

Hi Jonas,

This is another recent addition, so again you'll need at least Gnucash 2.5.1. This introduces a GUIDString class which will convert a GUID to a string as follows:

guid_sting = 'a3817efd668585e2f4431e2996683fd1'
account_guid = gnucash.gnucash_core.GUID()
gnucash.gnucash_core.GUIDString(guid_string, account_guid)

You can see an example of this code in the getAccount method at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/trunk/src/optional/python-bindings/example_scripts/rest-api/gnucash_rest.py

As an aside, I'm not entirely happy about the GUIDString class, as this should really be implemented as a method of the GUID class rather than it's own class. Any suggestions from an experinced Pythoner would be much appreciated - the relevent class is defined in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/trunk/src/optional/python-bindings/gnucash_core.py 

Kind regards,

Tom

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From: gnucash-devel-bounces+dev=loftx.co.uk at gnucash.org [mailto:gnucash-devel-bounces+dev=loftx.co.uk at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Lippuner
Sent: 05 June 2013 08:42
To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Subject: Creating GUID

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Hi guys,

If I know the string of a GUID, how do I create the corresponding GUID object in the Python bindings for Gnucash?

The only thing I got to run is

guid = GUID()
string_to_guid("a3817efd668585e2f4431e2996683fd1", guid.__weakref__)

But this does not work since the variable guid gets a value when it is created and string_to_guid does not change that value, i.e. I just get a new guid with a random value...


Also, I noticed that it is possible to create multiple customers with the same Customer ID. Is this intentional?


Thanks for the help,
Jonas

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