Generic importer:QIF

[Christian Stimming]

Hi Chintan,

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Quoting Chintan Agarwal <chintan.agarwal at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for the prompt reply. So importing from any format now essentially
> involves parsing it and passing on the parsed object to the generic
> importer.

Yes, exactly.

> The front-end, of course has to be taken care of separately. I
> actually got confused when I saw import-parse.c in /src/import-export. Does
> this actually parse all the formats(as it has to be generic)? I understand
> the post parsing part, as all the formats are then on a common footing and
> the same code can be used for mapping etc. However, I could not understand
> the generic parser part.

I don't think the functions of import-parse.h are used anywhere at  
all. Basically you can ignore that file. The mainly interesting parts  
of the "generic importer" is in import-main-matcher.h; you probably  
don't need much else than that.

> Also, if we have all the code generic( i.e. deals
> with all the various formats), what would be the difference between various
> branches(OFX, HBCI, QIF etc.)?

Again, import-parse.h is currently unused. The different  
sub-directories all create a Transaction* and pass it to the functions  
in import-main-matcher.h.

> PS: I just hope I code enough to have bugs in them ;)

Heheh.

Christian

>
> On 6/22/07, Christian Stimming < stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Chintan Agarwal < chintan.agarwal at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Can the code in /src/import-export/import-backend.c and other files in
>> the
>>> same folder be used for mapping a parsed qif file? As far as I
>> understand,
>>> this is the generic framework that we want to use for all imports. Is my
>>> understanding right?
>>
>> Yes, this is completely right.
>>
>> Also not that there are still a few bugs in the "generic importer"
>> (import-backend.c code)
>> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-June/020669.html
>> , but I'm quite confident those will get fixed over the next months.