On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Alvin Starr <[email protected]> wrote: > I may have missed this addition along the way since my interest in > ledgersmb is driven more by need than anything else. > > > My ongoing hot issue is an API. > Well an API that is not "emulate the web user". > That's ongoing as we replace old code. The API is a two-level API:
1) Discoverable stored procedure interface intended to provide consistent security and business logic constraints across applications written in different languages. 2) Perl interface for lighter-weight scripting. Really the Perl layer in 1.3 new code is usually pretty thin, and largely glues the UI to stored procedures. The old codebase API is usable without emulating a web user, but it's not well documented, and it's awkward. The new API is still sub-optimal in Perl but it's a large step forward. We will probably be to a nice clean API in 2.0. My hope post-1.3 is that we can get the AR/AP/GL transaction stuff moved to the new codebase by 1.4, but the invoicing side is complicated and might not happen for some time after that without a lot of help. I would also like to see 1.4 and later broken out into different schemas (lsmb_contacts, lsmb_financial, lsmb_stockkeeping, lsmb_fixed_assets, lsmb_projects, etc). This is all expected to be documented and supported as we go. Hope this helps. We'd love your feedback in what can be improved in the API as we move in this direction. In 1.3 though it's largely only available for payments, reciepts, fixed assets, file attachments, and cash reconciliation. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
