accounts are strings in the client side

common/proto/accounting.proto

@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ service Accounting {
 
 message EnsureAccountRequest {
   string profile_name = 1;
-  repeated string segments = 2;
+  // Slash-delimited root-to-leaf account path, for example "123/12/1".
+  string account = 2;
   // Currency accepted by source postings to the leaf account. Empty uses the
   // profile accounting currency. Missing ancestors are created in the profile
   // accounting currency.
@@ -87,9 +88,8 @@ message Account {
   int64 id = 1;
   optional int64 parent_account_id = 2;
   string segment = 3;
-  // Root-to-leaf path of this account. Same shape as the request that created
-  // it; the server never joins segments into a delimited code.
-  repeated string segments = 4;
+  // Slash-delimited root-to-leaf account path.
+  string account = 4;
   string denomination_currency = 5;
 }
 
@@ -161,9 +161,8 @@ message PostJournalRequest {
 
 message JournalLineInput {
   JournalSide side = 1;
-  // Parsed account path segments. The client owns presentation parsing; the
-  // server accepts no delimiter-encoded account string.
-  repeated string account_segments = 2;
+  // Slash-delimited root-to-leaf account path.
+  string account = 2;
   string amount = 3;
   string description = 4;
 }
@@ -281,8 +280,8 @@ message JournalLine {
   int64 id = 1;
   int32 line_number = 2;
   JournalSide side = 3;
-  // Root-to-leaf path of the posted account, as sent on JournalLineInput.
-  repeated string account_segments = 4;
+  // Slash-delimited root-to-leaf path of the posted account.
+  string account = 4;
   string amount = 5;
   string description = 6;
   bool deleted = 7;
@@ -379,8 +378,8 @@ message ListPeriodBalancesRequest {
 
 message PeriodBalance {
   int64 period_id = 1;
-  // Root-to-leaf path of the account this frozen balance belongs to.
-  repeated string account_segments = 2;
+  // Slash-delimited root-to-leaf path of this frozen balance's account.
+  string account = 2;
   string currency = 3;
   // Signed nets use debit-positive convention.
   string opening_balance = 4;
@@ -393,7 +392,7 @@ message PeriodDenominationBalance {
   int64 period_id = 1;
   // Exact denominated account. Unlike book balances, this quantity is not
   // rolled up into parent accounts with a different denomination.
-  repeated string account_segments = 2;
+  string account = 2;
   string denomination_currency = 3;
   // Signed nets use debit-positive convention and remain in the denomination
   // currency without conversion during carry-forward.
@@ -424,13 +423,13 @@ message MapOpeningBalanceAccountRequest {
   // Open period whose profile receives the opening balance. Its configured
   // previous_period_id identifies the source profile and period.
   int64 target_period_id = 1;
-  repeated string source_account_segments = 2;
-  repeated string target_account_segments = 3;
+  string source_account = 2;
+  string target_account = 3;
 }
 
 message UnmapOpeningBalanceAccountRequest {
   int64 target_period_id = 1;
-  repeated string target_account_segments = 2;
+  string target_account = 2;
 }
 
 message UnmapOpeningBalanceAccountResponse {
@@ -453,9 +452,9 @@ message OpeningBalanceAccountMapping {
   int64 target_period_id = 1;
   int64 source_period_id = 2;
   string source_profile_name = 3;
-  repeated string source_account_segments = 4;
+  string source_account = 4;
   string target_profile_name = 5;
-  repeated string target_account_segments = 6;
+  string target_account = 6;
   string currency = 7;
   // Signed balances use the debit-positive convention.
   string opening_balance = 8;
@@ -478,7 +477,7 @@ message OpeningBalanceAccountMapping {
 message UnmappedSourceBalance {
   int64 source_period_id = 1;
   string source_profile_name = 2;
-  repeated string source_account_segments = 3;
+  string source_account = 3;
   string currency = 4;
   // Signed portion not covered by a mapping, using the debit-positive
   // convention. This is never zero and may be less than the account's
@@ -490,7 +489,7 @@ message UnmappedSourceBalance {
 message UnmappedSourceDenominationBalance {
   int64 source_period_id = 1;
   string source_profile_name = 2;
-  repeated string source_account_segments = 3;
+  string source_account = 3;
   string denomination_currency = 4;
   // Exact foreign-currency quantity that no mapping carries forward.
   string unmapped_quantity = 5;

common/proto/table_structure.proto

@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ message GetTableStructureResponse {
 message TableStructureResponse {
   // Columns of the physical table, including system columns (id, deleted,
   // created_at, row_revision), user-defined columns, and any foreign-key columns such as
-  // named by whoever declared each link, plus the dedicated "account_id" on
+  // named by whoever declared each link, plus the dedicated "account" on
   // ACCOUNTING-enabled tables. May be empty if the physical table is missing.
   repeated TableColumn columns = 1;
 }
 
 // One physical column entry as reported by information_schema.
 message TableColumn {
-  // Column name exactly as defined in PostgreSQL.
+  // Public column name. Physical account_id columns are exposed as account.
   string name = 1;
 
   // Normalized data type string derived from information_schema:

common/proto/tables_data.proto

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ service TablesData {
   // - Validates profile and table definition
   // - Returns all columns as strings (COALESCE(col::TEXT, '') AS col)
   //   including: id, deleted, row_revision, all user-defined columns, and FK columns
-  //   named by whoever declared each link, plus "account_id" on
+  //   named by whoever declared each link, plus "account" on
   //   ACCOUNTING-enabled tables
   // - Fails with NOT_FOUND if record does not exist or is soft-deleted
   // - If the physical table is missing but the definition exists, returns INTERNAL
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ message PostTableDataRequest {
   // - System/FK columns:
   //    • "deleted" (BOOLEAN), optional; default FALSE if not provided
   //    • one BIGINT per link, named by whoever declared it
-  //    • "account_id" (BIGINT) on ACCOUNTING-enabled tables
+  //    • "account" (slash-delimited account string) on ACCOUNTING-enabled tables
   //
   // Type expectations by SQL type:
   // - TEXT: string value; empty string is treated as NULL
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ message GetTableDataResponse {
   // - id, deleted
   // - all user-defined columns from the table definition
   // - one column per link, named by whoever declared it
-  // - account_id for ACCOUNTING-enabled tables
+  // - account for ACCOUNTING-enabled tables
   //
   // All values are returned as TEXT via col::TEXT and COALESCEed to empty string
   // (NULL becomes ""). The row is returned only if deleted = FALSE.