Creating GUID

[Jonas Lippuner]

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Hi Tom,

Thanks again for the quick reply.

After some more trying, I found that the following works (with Gnucash
2.4):

guid = GncGUID()
string_to_guid("a3817efd668585e2f4431e2996683fd1", guid)


Best,
Jonas

- -------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Creating GUID
From: Tom Lofts <dev at loftx.co.uk>
To: 'Jonas Lippuner' <jonas at lippuner.ca>
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Date: Wed 05 Jun 2013 01:22:31 AM PDT

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message----- 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
> 
> 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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