API

The intent is to have a full API for LedgerSMB, eventually. This desire has existed for a long time. To help make the discussion less abstract, we're using two cases to evaluate help evaluate the design:

• API for GL accounts

• API for Contacts, including:

  • Customers
  • Vendors

  but excluding:

  • Employees
  • Users

In general, the API should support the following functionalities:

• Creation of a new element
• Listing of existing elements, optionally
  • limited by search parameters
• Transitioning through the document state transition diagram