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/** @addtogroup Object
    @{ */
/** @addtogroup Object_Private
    Private interfaces, not meant to be used by applications.
    @{ */
/** @name  Book_Private
    @{ */
/*
 * HISTORY:
 * Created 2001 by Rob Browning
 * Copyright (c) 2001 Rob Browning
 * Copyright (c) 2001,2003 Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
 */

#ifndef QOF_BOOK_P_H
#define QOF_BOOK_P_H

#include "qofbackend.h"
#include "qofbook.h"
#include "qofid.h"
#include "qofid-p.h"
#include "qofinstance-p.h"
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

/*
 *    qof_book_set_backend() is used by backends to
 *    initialize the pointers in the book structure to
 *    something that contains actual data.  These routines
 *    should not be used otherwise.  (Its somewhat questionable
 *    if the backends should even be doing this much, but for
 *    backwards compatibility, we leave these here.)
 */
void qof_book_set_backend (QofBook *book, QofBackend *be);

/* Register books with the engine */
gboolean qof_book_register (void);

/** @deprecated use qof_instance_set_guid instead but only in
backends (when reading the GncGUID from the data source). */
#define qof_book_set_guid(book,guid)    \
         qof_instance_set_guid(QOF_INSTANCE(book), guid)

/** Validate a counter format string with a given format specifier.
 *    If valid, returns a normalized format string,
 *    that is whatever long int specifier was used will be replaced with the value of
 *    the posix "PRIx64" macro.
 *    If not valid returns NULL and optionally set an error message is a non-null
 *    err_msg parameter was passed.
 *    The caller should free the returned format string and  error message with g_free.
 */
gchar *qof_book_normalize_counter_format_internal(const gchar *p,
        const gchar* gint64_format, gchar **err_msg);

/** This debugging function can be used to traverse the book structure
 *    and all subsidiary structures, printing out which structures
 *    have been marked dirty.
 */
void qof_book_print_dirty (const QofBook *book);

/* @} */
/* @} */
/* @} */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* QOF_BOOK_P_H */