[GNC-dev] Fwd: [GNC] custom report freezing - work done gets lost.

[Christopher Lam]

Ok forwarding to people who have better idea.

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From: Steven Bruniges <steven.bruniges at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 09:34
Subject: Re: [GNC] custom report freezing - work done gets lost.
To: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>


Have identifies my issue.   Was calling xaccTransDestroy with pointers to
splits that had been destroyed in an earlier loop.  Not sure why this locks
up gnucash.

Steve

On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, 22:20 Christopher Lam, <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry without specific detail what you're trying to do, we can't help.
> Moreover this is open-source, including open-source help requests.
> cc: devel
>
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 05:58, Steven Bruniges <steven.bruniges at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not even sure it’s the session I want to save (hoping for the function
>> underlying the save option in the file menu).
>>
>>
>>
>> Working through a process of elimination.  I’d love to find the
>> transaction that’s triggering this behaviour.  If I can reduce the 3000
>> splits to something more manageable I may find the issue?
>>
>>
>>
>> The report typically hangs and Task manager shows the system is at rest.
>> If I modify the code to open warning dialogs it crashes after a number of
>> loops.  No output in the trace file.  Either way, I get no diagnostic
>> feedback.
>>
>>
>>
>> Its possible I am retaining pointers to a deleted split, or running
>> across a temporary split that was never finished, etc, (or both).
>>
>>
>>
>> On that point, is there any test if a split is deleted?
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Christopher Lam [mailto:christopher.lck at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, 6 October 2019 6:17 PM
>> *To:* Steven Bruniges <steven.bruniges at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] custom report freezing - work done gets lost.
>>
>>
>>
>> qof-session isn't currently accessible to scheme. Why do you think you'll
>> need to save session?
>>
>>
>>
>> It may help to publish your report on Bugzilla or devel mailing list.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, 12:53 Steven Bruniges, <steven.bruniges at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a custom report that appears to be freezing, so I have to halt it.
>> It
>> in a 3000 item loop, and I suspect the overheads are growing as it
>> progresses.
>>
>>
>>
>> I want to save the book periodically, which if nothing else will simplify
>> the work in a future run.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a function I can call  that is like "gnc-book-session-save"?
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
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