Review API addition to allow plugins to detect duplicate payment info
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Key: MIFOS-3215
URL: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-3215
Project: mifos
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Sam Birney
Priority: Major
Attachments: StandardAccountService.java
(I emailed this to the developers list a few days ago. I hope someone will
please respond soon, we would really like to start preventing duplicate
payments from being imported.)
the AccountService API currently provides a useful way for client code to apply
payments to accounts, which is used by the bank import (and MPesa import)
plugins.
I propose enhancing it with a way to provide information about existing
payments as well. With the ability to retrieve information about existing
payments, clients could make choices about whether to warn users that payments
may have already been applied for the same account on the same payment date,
with the same receipt number, e.g.
This would be a big help at a certain MFI which is currently using the bank
import plugin extensively, and often finding that users are mistakenly
uploading the same spreadsheet of payment data multiple times, leading to lots
of bad data which is not always detected immediately and significantly
time-consuming to correct when it is detected.
The new interface method prototype could look like the following, and its
implementation could look like that in the attached file. Before I go further
with extending the plugin with logic to detect duplicate records, does this
seem reasonable? Would it be OK to add this to the AccountService?
/**
* Lookup all payments associated with a given account.
*
* <at> param accountRef is a reference to the account for which payment
information is requested.
*/
public List<AccountPaymentParametersDto> lookupPayments(AccountReferenceDto
accountRef) throws Exception;
thanks,
Sam
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