Task: Drop deliverable/settlement_currency/fixing_source from currency_pair (deliverability needs a real model)

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This page documents a task in the Currency pair support in reference data story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.

Goal

Started as: rename currency_pair.deliverable to non_deliverable (inverted sense, matching the idiomatic FX term "non-deliverable forward"/NDF). Implemented, then reconsidered per FpML research (FpML models this via a settlementType enum — Cash/Physical — not a boolean, precisely because a pair can have more than one settlement type, sometimes business-centre dependent) — see the design pivot in * Plan below. Ended as: drop non_deliverable, settlement_currency, and fixing_source from currency_pair entirely; deliverability needs a dedicated settlement-convention junction model, captured separately for a future story.

Acceptance

  • currency_pair no longer carries non_deliverable, settlement_currency, or fixing_source in SQL (schema, DQ artefact table, seed/populate, publish-from-DQ), C++ domain/ repository/generator, or Qt (columns, detail fields, badges).
  • Badge Catalogue has no leftover currency_pair_non_deliverable=/ =currency_pair_deliverable entry.
  • A capture exists in the backlog inbox describing the proper settlement-convention model for a future story.

Status

Field Value
State DONE
Parent story Currency pair support in reference data
Now Nothing.
Waiting on Nothing.
Next Nothing.
Last touched 2026-07-08

Plan

Scope decision (with user): only currency_pair.deliverablecurrency.deliverable (a separate, semantically-identical field: whether the currency itself forces any pair to be NDF) stays as-is, out of scope for this task.

Round 1 (rename): codegen-driven — edited the field definition in ores.refdata.currency_pair.org (name, label, default, badge_key), regenerated SQL/domain/Qt, hand-fixed what codegen doesn't own (seed/populate SQL, badge-system population row, paste blocks referencing the field). Badge colour sense was first inverted (Yes=NDF = gray/"special case"), then reverted back to plain Yes=green — user feedback: Yes should always read as the affirmative/green case regardless of what the field means, consistent with every other Yes/No badge in the app.

Round 2 (drop): mid-implementation, asked "how does FpML model this?" — FpML uses settlementType (Cash/Physical enum) plus a conditional settlementCurrency, not a boolean, precisely because real FX conventions allow multiple settlement types per pair (sometimes business-centre dependent) — a plain boolean/optional- currency pair can't express that. Decision: drop non_deliverable, settlement_currency, and (same NDF-related concept) fixing_source from currency_pair entirely, and capture the proper settlement-convention model (Model FX settlement type per currency pair, referencing FX Settlement Market Convention Data Model) for a future story rather than build it now.

Also fixed along the way (pre-existing bug from a concurrent merge on main, unrelated to this task but blocking manual testing): RegulatoryBookTypeController was missing :has_export_macro: true, so its symbols were hidden from libores.qt.refdata.so's dynamic symbol table — libores.qt.trading.so references it and failed to resolve the symbol at load time, silently killing the client right after party selection. Root-caused via gdb + nm -D comparison against a working controller (BookController, which does carry the flag).

Files:

  • projects/ores.refdata/modeling/ores.refdata.currency_pair.org — field defs removed; paste-block bodies simplified to just pair_code derivation + base≠quote validation.
  • Regenerated: SQL create/drop, domain struct, repository/mapper/generator, Qt Columns/Detail/Model/Dialog/MdiWindow/HistoryDialog files.
  • Hand-fixed: refdata_currency_pairs_seed_populate.sql, dq_currency_pairs_artefact_create.sql, refdata_publish_from_dq_create.sql, dq_badge_system_populate.sql.
  • projects/ores.refdata/modeling/ores.refdata.regulatory_book_type.org — added the missing export-macro flag (unrelated fix, bundled in this PR since it blocked testing).
  • Docs: Badge Catalogue — removed the currency_pair_non_deliverable entry.
  • New: FX Settlement Market Convention Data Model (Gemini analysis, committed with an org-roam ID), Model FX settlement type per currency pair (backlog capture referencing it).

Notes

PRs

PR Title
#1480 [refdata,qt,sql] Drop deliverable/settlement_currency/fixing_source

Review

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Result

Shipped: dropped non_deliverable, settlement_currency, and fixing_source from currency_pair entirely (SQL, domain, Qt), after a design pivot from a straight rename once it became clear a boolean/optional-currency pair can't express real FX settlement conventions. Filed a capture with a structural analysis for the proper future model. Also fixed a pre-existing, unrelated cross-plugin symbol-visibility bug that was silently killing the client on party selection.

CI initially red on canary (RLS_002 on ores_variability_system_settings_tbl, pre-existing on main, unrelated to this PR) — added to the established ignore-list stopgap pattern. Merged with --force per explicit instruction once CI was green.

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