Generate file id on every download

[r38y]

I think page 36 of the following means the FileID should change when downloading a new file?

https://developer-static.intuit.com/qbSDK-current/doc/PDF/QBWC_proguide.pdf

[JasonBarnabe]

As I understand it, you need a different FileID for each QuickBooks company file you want to access on your computer. I don't think generating a random one each time is what we want, because if you wanted to "reinstall" the connection, you'd download the .qwc file and give it to Web Connector, and wouldn't you end up with two entries?

It'd be better to have the configuration generator create a GUID for FileID, so every user of qbwc wouldn't have the same GUID, but at the same time an individual user would get the same GUID every time they downloaded the .qwc file.

[r38y]

Yeah, it looks like if there is a new FileID it will ask if you want to replace the current one, add a second application, or do nothing.

What about making it @file_id || SecureRandom.uuid so we can override it in the controller like the other ones? That way we can have one file_id per file we are managing.

[JasonBarnabe]

I'd like to have FileID and OwnerID randomly generated when you run rails generate qbwc:install. If you'd like access to it in the controller, I'd accept a change for that too. Personally, I just manually edit the .qwc file.

[r38y]

Yeah, manually editing it is what I'm doing but I don't want to rely on
someone having to remember that in the future when another developer is
working on it. I'll update this to make it override-able.

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I'd like to have FileID and OwnerID randomly generated when you run rails
generate qbwc:install. If you'd like access to it in the controller, I'd
accept a change for that too. Personally, I just manually edit the .qwc
file.

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[r38y]

How's that?

[JasonBarnabe]

Can you make it a public method instead, and add documentation (I suppose under "Multiple users and multiple company files")?

[r38y]

I just tried setting the FileID to the MD5 of the file_path and it seems to work... and is pretty close to the meaning of that field, I think. What about using the MD5 of the file path by default?

[r38y]

I think this is what you meant. I got rid of manually editing the OwnerID because I think that line was wrong. The OwnerID is the id of the application being integrated with so it should always be the same for the same app.

[JasonBarnabe]

I'm fairly sure that you need to change OwnerID if you have one Rails app, one QuickBooks file, but multiple users (on different machines) running Web Connector, so leave that paragraph alone.

Can you use the existing GUID instead of a random one? As I previously mentioned, I don't think it's right to have the FileID different each time you download it. Having one hard-coded one is not right either, but we can handle that in a separate issue by having the generator make one.

Since AppName needs to be unique as well, can you extract it out in the same way as you did FileID?

[r38y]

I had pulled that OwnerID from the PDF above where it says

You should generate one GUID per application only and not per application version or per QWC file!

I'll add back the paragraph since I'm not going to be manually updating the file.

I pulled the app name out too.

[JasonBarnabe]

Keep paragraphs together in a single line.

Drop the word "Alternatively" and make sure to mention app_name too.

[JasonBarnabe]

Filed #73 for not having hard-coded GUIDs. Thanks!

[r38y]

Sure! This gem has helped a lot, thank you!

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Filed #73 #73 for not having
hard-coded GUIDs. Thanks!

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