Cryptic error message when merging recipients

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Samstag, 29. März 2025 19:00:49 CEST Martin Steigerwald via KMyMoney wrote:

> Hi Jack, hi.
> 
> Jack via KMyMoney - 29.03.25, 17:17:51 CET:
> > On 3/29/25 12:05 PM, Martin Steigerwald via KMyMoney wrote:
> > > When I go about merging recipients to clean up different spellings of
> > > the same real recipient I sometimes get a cryptic error message.
> > > 
> > > Cannot remove payee P[…] that is still referenced to transaction T[…]
> > > ./ kmymoney/mymoney/storage/mymoneystoragemgr.cpp:280
> > 
> > First question is which version are you using?  If you are using a 5.1
> > version, what happens if you try a development/master version?
> 
> Version 5.1.3.
> 
> I am not sure I want to compile a development/master version at this 
> moment.

No need to do that: the KDE CI/CD builds a directly executable one-file
AppImage version that you can try out. See https://kmymoney.org/appimage.html
for details.

[...]

> As I started KMyMoney again to try the find transaction hint from you, 
> KMyMoney displayed lots of transactions for that payee. So it seems after 
> a failure to merge payees KMyMoney seems to become confused when being 
> asked to display transactions for the payee that was about to be deleted.
> 
> It would be better if this was atomic. Either fully merged or either not 
> merged at all. However as KMyMoney did not complain about saving changes 
> and the save button was grayed out, actually I still had the state before 
> the failed merging.

The code (master) shows that this is an 'atomic' operation. What you experience
could be a display problem on the 5.1 version which may already been resolved
in master, because the code has been refactored a lot in data/display handling.
So another good reason to try it out.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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