[Erp5-dev] translating accounting transaction lines

[Jean-Paul Smets]

Le Samedi 21 Janvier 2006 22:23, Yoshinori Okuji a écrit :
> On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:03, Bartłomiej Górny wrote:
> > > This is not required for your purpose, but personally I think it
> > > would be better to specify income to reference rather than id. But
> > > this would require modifying some scripts.
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't understand... Could you elaborate?
>
> Only the accounting transaction lines use "id" to specify the
> purpose/indications of the objects. This looks inconsistent to me.
> Usually, we use the property "reference" or a category to refer to a
> certain object, so I prefer to change the implementation.

I do not agree. IDs are used in other places to specify the purpose of an 
object (ex. default_career, default_address), etc. In a sense, IDs are also 
used to name properties of an object (this is a troll).

I think it is useful to access an object by id, including for accounting. 
(However, I think ids should be hidden and must be not be translated).

If you think about redesigning this, please consider other cases (default 
phone, default picture of a person, default task line in a task, default 
documentation file for a product) and the impact on performance of using 
references in those cases (10 object lookups in avge instead of 1).

JPS.

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