[GNC] gncJobNextID in gncJob.c not in gncJob.h

[Robert Simmons]

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 <jralls at 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 <rsimmons0 at 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"
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