FYI: GnuCash goes OFX ;-)

[Martin Preuss]

Hi,

As you know GnuCash currently uses AqBanking for online banking. Until now 
this has only been interesting for German users, because the homebanking 
protocol HBCI is only available around here.

However, I just added a backend for AqBanking which allows connecting to OFX 
servers for transaction and account statement retrieval.

This works with a test server, but I didn't have the chance to test it with 
real servers, yet. It depends on latest changes in LibOFX (Ace Jones ported 
his code from KMyMoney to LibOFX) and on some personal changes I made to my 
local sandbox of LibOFX.

The beauty is: I verifed with my own application that no changes to the 
application itself are necessary to use the new backend (even no 
recompilation). If the application already uses AqBanking (which GnuCash does 
for HBCI) it can also use OFX without modifications ;-)

There is much left to be done, most importantly a setup wizard must be written 
and the stuff must be tested with real servers...
So this backend is in no way complete (and for now only available via CVS), 
but maybe it is interesting enough to know what is going on with online 
banking ;-)


regards
Martin


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"Things are only impossible until they're not"

LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/
AqBanking - http://www.aquamaniac.de/aqbanking/
OpenHBCI - http://www.openhbci.de/