[Kmymoney-devel] Distinction between Transfer and Splits

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Wednesday 11 February 2015 20:36:07 Christian Dávid wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering why KMyMoney has an internal distinction between
> transfers and splits?

I think you mean transactions and splits. Transfers are a special form of 
transactions. The general answer: historical reasons.

> An alternative could be to use splits only. Like in the SQL database now
> they could have a transferId and a splitId. Only the transferId and the
> combination (transferId, splitId) are unique. To display the data all
> splits with the same transferId are grouped to transaction. Just an idea.

Yes, but you cannot eliminate the transaction object as it contains certain 
information which is identical in each split (e.g. dates, currency, ...).

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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