Generic importer:QIF

[Chintan Agarwal]

The OFX importer is proving very useful in understanding how to write a qif
importer with the  given requirements. There was another question I had.
This pertains to the variable type Transaction which is required by the
gnc_gen_trans_list_add_trans function in import-main-matcher.h. Due to the
frequent occurrence of the word Transaction, I could not successfully find
the definition of the data-type(=>Transaction data-type). If you could point
me to the file that contains the same, I would figure out exactly what
values in the datatype are relevant to QIF.
Thanks.
-Chintan

On 6/22/07, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Chintan,
>
> please remember to CC gnucash-devel on all replies.
>
> 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.
>
>