automatic ex/import of data

[Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:

> "Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists" <tpo2 at sourcepole.ch> writes:
>
> > Hello people,
> >
> > I'm planing a project for one of my students. He's doing a cybercash
> > frontend [1]. The idea would be to connect an accounting programm - here
> > Gnucash to the cybercash frontend, so one could:
> >
> > 1. add transactions into gnucash as soon as some cash arrives
> > 2. trigger a transaction as soon as it's done in gnucash
> >
> > I know that the HBCI project does something related. However are the two
> > points above as they are doable with existing framework or not?
> >
> > That is:
> >
> > 1. do there exist hooks where a script or external application can be
> >    called when a transaction is entered?
>
> Maybe currently...  But this is something that SHOULD be added.
> You could base this on the running events -- but those aren't available
> to scripts, only to plug-in C code.
>
> Note that you CAN implement a gnc module to do your work and plug that
> in at runtime.  That might be your best bet.
>
> > 2. is there a possiblity to call gnucash through some kind of RPC, from
> >    the command line or as a daemon to add a transaction?
>
> Not currently...
>
> > If the previous two things are not doable from outside of Gnucash
> > (through scripts or similar), how much of an effort would it be to
> > add such hooks into and out of Gnucash?
>
> They are not doable today.  #1 would be relatively easy to add, but #2
> would be more difficult.

Could you give me an estimate on how long #1 and #2 would take for someone
that is *not* familiar with gnucash's internals?
*t

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