Quiet import

[Neil Williams]

On Friday 10 December 2004 4:32 pm, David Bottomley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to import QIF files quietly and without user intervention (cron)

Honest? Are you really that confident of the incoming data?

> -- don't care about matching, dupes, etc...
> Does this already exist, or would I have to develop it?

It might not work for QIF but it may work for the new QSF that should be ready 
in the new year. QSF is an XML format. Once it's ready, I may investigate a 
program to convert QIF into QSF.

http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/

> If I had to develop, it looks like I have to learn Guile, right?

No, C. You'd basically write a personal console application in C that used the 
QSF and qof_book_merge code and used the API to set each collision with a 
known result - that way the user intervention is provided without a dialog or 
interruption. You would have the opportunity to assign different results if 
you need to. However, there is no guarantee that the merge would consider the 
data the same way as you - it could well flag something for user intervention 
that you would consider new. THAT is why user intervention is so central to 
all the GnuCash import mechanisms - existing and future.



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