Thursday, October 22, 2020

The getlino test suite now also tries to install a voga application. And this failed. The pm prep on the newly created site said:

lino_xl.lib.accounting.models.DoesNotExist:
Problem installing fixture '/usr/local/lino/lino_local/voga1/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/lino_xl/lib/finan/fixtures/payments.py':
Journal matching query does not exist.

I reproduced this problem in the book by adding a new demo project lino_book.projects.voga1.

Explanation: the minimal_ledger in lino_xl.lib.accounting created certain journals (SLC, PRC, PMO, …) only when lino_xl.lib.vat.Plugin.declaration_plugin was set. And there is no default value for this setting. An empty declaration_plugin is used e.g. in lino_book.projects.cosi2, which is an example of a freelancer who uses Lino to just write invoices and has accounting done by an external expert.

Should getlino ask (or provide a default value) for it? No. The solution is much easier:

  • Adapted the payments fixture of lino_xl.lib.accounting to also work when declaration_plugin is empty.

  • Fixing this revealed a secondary bug: the get_installed_plugins() of the lino_voga.lib.voga.settings.Site was yielding the lino_xl.lib.bevats plugin, this is done automatically when declaration_plugin is set.