Stefan,

Including it in your next PR is fine too, no need for a separate PR. 

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jan 25, 2026, at 09:41, Stefan Koch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was just going to fix it as part of my test pull request.  
> 
> It really does not matter to me what the next steps are.  It is pretty 
> trivial.   I you think I need practice making a PR, and then fixing it with a 
> pull request.  Then we can do that as well.  
> 
> I also have no problem with you just fixing it.   
> 
> Stefan
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 12:08 PM John Ralls <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Stefan,
>> 
>> Good catch. Obviously a copy-paste oversight and nearly 20 years old. I 
>> don’t see any access to idata via the property, only through the explicit 
>> setter and getter, so no real impact. That would explain why nobody noticed.
>> 
>> Would you like to submit a PR or shall I fix it?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> > On Jan 25, 2026, at 08:46, Stefan Koch <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > While trying to learn some of the systems in the source code through 
>> > writing unit tests, I think I found a bug in the way the qofinstance 
>> > properties are setup.  (I don't see much usage of this so it may not be an 
>> > issue in practice.)  
>> > 
>> > I think the following change fixes the issue:  
>> > 
>> > modified   libgnucash/engine/qofinstance.cpp
>> > @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void qof_instance_class_init(QofInstanceClass 
>> > *klass)
>> >  
>> >      g_object_class_install_property
>> >      (object_class,
>> > -     PROP_EDITLEVEL,
>> > +     PROP_IDATA,
>> >       g_param_spec_uint ("idata",
>> >                          "Object IData",
>> >                          "Per instance backend private data.",
>> > 
>> > Since I am new, I would like to confirm before going on.  
>> > 
>> > Stefan
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>> 

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