DepositLine Object needs to be more specific when a LinkedTxn vs DepositLineDetail #329
Description
When updating (and also during creation), the QBO API will fail with an obscure error if you are using linked transactions in a deposit.
QB Validation Exception 2020: Required param missing, need to supply the required value for the API
Required parameter Line.DepositLineDetail.AccountRef is missing in the request
This occurs because the DepositLine Object includes the self.DetailType = "DepositLineDetail" attribute regardless if the line being a LinkedTxn or not.
I haven't dug in far enough to know if this can be a conditional inclusion at object creation or not. I ended up using a delattrib on the object method in my operational codebase:
def remove_unwanted_details(obj):
if isinstance(obj, list):
return [remove_unwanted_details(item) for item in obj]
elif isinstance(obj, dict):
# Remove 'DetailType' if 'LinkedTxn' key is present in the dict
if "LinkedTxn" in obj and obj["LinkedTxn"]:
obj.pop("DetailType", None)
for key, value in list(obj.items()):
obj[key] = remove_unwanted_details(value)
elif hasattr(obj, '__dict__'):
if isinstance(obj, DepositLine) and getattr(obj, 'LinkedTxn', None):
# Use delattr to remove the 'DetailType' attribute from Line instances with LinkedTxn
if hasattr(obj, 'DetailType'):
delattr(obj, 'DetailType')
# Recurse into attributes of custom objects
for attr_name in list(obj.__dict__.keys()):
attr_value = getattr(obj, attr_name)
setattr(obj, attr_name, remove_unwanted_details(attr_value))
return obj