Approving a pending entry created with a reference (e.g. invoice
"42-144") 404'd with "Pending entry unknown not found": the list
endpoints recovered the entry id by parsing links for a libra- prefix,
but reference-bearing entries displace that link with the fused
"{reference}-{entry_id}" form, so the id surfaced as the literal
"unknown" and the approve call round-tripped it.
Make the entry-id transaction metadata the single canonical identity:
- _extract_entry_id() resolves metadata-first (libra- link parsing kept
only for pre-dfdcc44 ledger history); used by /entries/user,
/entries/pending, approve, and reject.
- Creation endpoints no longer fuse the reference with the entry id —
the user reference becomes its own sanitized link and round-trips
verbatim in API responses. Typed exp-/rcv-/inc- links stay as the
settlement-tracking handles.
- format_revenue_entry now writes entry-id metadata like its siblings
and sanitizes its reference link (was appended raw); generic
POST /entries sanitizes its reference link too.
- User-journal reference extraction skips all system link prefixes
(typed links used to leak into the reference field).
Contract documented in CLAUDE.md (Data Integrity → Entry Identity &
Links), pinned by tests/test_entry_identity_api.py and formatter
contract tests in test_unit.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
113 passing tests + 3 skipped + 8 xfailed across 10 files, covering user
expense and income flow, admin receivable/revenue, settings + auth gates,
void/reject, manual payment requests, balance display, Lightning auth
paths, reconciliation API, and pure-function units. Runs against a real
Fava subprocess and full LNbits app via asgi_lifespan; the harness
captures the auth-flow / settings / env-var disciplines surfaced during
build-out (see tests/README.md and tests/conftest.py docstring).
Eight xfailed/skipped tests carry full implementations gated behind issues
#38, #39, #40 — they flip back on automatically when those land.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
